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Wreck of the Volunteer - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Wreck of the Volunteer - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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.

When the Navy Department puts doctors in command of the hospital ships

When the Navy Department puts doctors in command of the hospital ships

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune.

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Columbia, steel mast carried away

Columbia, steel mast carried away

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line

Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5926.

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Old wreck, Point Judith, Narragansett, R.I.

Old wreck, Point Judith, Narragansett, R.I.

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

Gordie Keenan interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-29

Gordie Keenan interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-29

Gordie Keenan was born in 1954, in Norfolk, Virginia. He was educated in Rochester, New York, and later attended the State University of New York Maritime College. He moved to Houston in 1991 and has worked for... More

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Rose Dorothea, with broken topmast in first [?] Fishermen's Race for Lipton Cup

Rose Dorothea, with broken topmast in first [?] Fishermen's Race for L...

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

[Shipwreck] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Shipwreck] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The Newfoundland fisheries - hardships and perils of the fisherman's life - scenes on the banks and at Gloucester / from sketches by Joseph Becker.

The Newfoundland fisheries - hardships and perils of the fisherman's l...

Four scenes including fishermen catching halibut, fishermen catching haglets for bait, two fishermen lost at sea in a dory, and women at Gloucester, Massachusetts grieving as men tell them the "bad news from th... More

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

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

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Wreck of Alba, Aug. 8, 1892 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Wreck of Alba, Aug. 8, 1892 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of a ship harbor, sailing boats, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & B.C. Stephenson.

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & B.C. Stephens...

Public domain photograph of people around a table, meeting, boardgame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Shamrock I with broken topmast - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Shamrock I with broken topmast - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gordie Keenan interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-29

Gordie Keenan interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-29

Gordie Keenan was born in 1954, in Norfolk, Virginia. He was educated in Rochester, New York, and later attended the State University of New York Maritime College. He moved to Houston in 1991 and has worked for... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line

Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5926.

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

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

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

Men attempting to right a capsized boat. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Title translated from album caption. No. 30. No. 86. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval personnel and facilit... More

City sonnets : Broadway at noon

City sonnets : Broadway at noon

Border of phoenix in flames around cherubs in shell boats; shipwreck victim at edge of surf. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Solitude" b... More

Columbia, Newport - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Columbia, Newport - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & B.C. Stephenson.

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & B.C. Stephens...

Public domain photograph of people around a table, meeting, boardgame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an ocean liner sinking amid icebergs with many passengers jumping into the sea for lack of enough lifeboats, as a few lifeboats loaded with passengers row clear of the ship. Caption: The Gri... More

[It wasn't until the dug-out blew in from the sea, and he had learned to navigate it, that the child visited the wreck]

[It wasn't until the dug-out blew in from the sea, and he had learned ...

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Instinct Primeval" by Gouverneur Morris, Hearst's International magazine, 42:62 (Dec. 1922).

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Shamrock I with broken topmast - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Shamrock I with broken topmast - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Backing glass to negative broken. "50" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05560. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

"728," "Newport," and "Johnston" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Columbia, steel mast carried away

Columbia, steel mast carried away

"25" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28919. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05479. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

Negative broken, upper right. "Aug. 2, 1899, Newport, Ct." and "727" on negative. Boat is dismasted. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Columbia, Newport Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

Columbia, Newport Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

"726," "Ct.," and "Johnston" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[The wreck] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[The wreck] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. Ross...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Wreck of Alba, Aug. 8, 1892 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Wreck of Alba, Aug. 8, 1892 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05302. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

Group of men clinging to hull of a capsized boat. 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 w... More

Winslow Homer - The wreck - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Winslow Homer - The wreck - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Title from jacket. Men pulling lifeboat on wagon. "M 805" on transparency. Photograph of a painting by Winslow Homer. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 050393. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. Ross...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

Columbia, steel mast carried away

Columbia, steel mast carried away

"25" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28919. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05479. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More

Wreck of the Volunteer - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Wreck of the Volunteer - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05092. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Old wreck, Point Judith, Narragansett, R.I

Old wreck, Point Judith, Narragansett, R.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011389. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Columbia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Avarīi︠a︡ s sudnom, gruzhenym stalʹi︠u︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

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Sailboat passing sunken ship, letter E

Sailboat passing sunken ship, letter E

Title devised by cataloger. Sketch for heading, chapter 5, Rudder Grange / Frank Stockton. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885, p. 63. (DLC/PP-1933:0054). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (L... More

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

Columbia Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company, photo by John S. Johnston

"729," "Newport," and "Johnston" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Through the glasses could be seen the shipwrecked couple standing side by side on the strand

Through the glasses could be seen the shipwrecked couple standing side...

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Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River

Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths... More

Columbia, steel mast carried away

Columbia, steel mast carried away

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