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Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Moscow Radar Site Transmit...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tran... More

Pennsylvania soldiers voting, Army of the James

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed on carton, lower right: Cap Wattson, Co. I, 3rd Penn Arty / Mess. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File D. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2) For... More

View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sulliv...

Stereograph showing a cannon inside the battery of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, an...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 129, Worth Road near Baker Road, Wate...

Significance: The building is a highly intact example of early ammunition magazine design and contributes to an understanding of the arsenal's early manufacturing and storage activities. It was modeled after t... More

[District of Columbia. Officers and men of Company F, 3d Massachusetts...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Dormitory, Chugach National Forest, Cord...

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

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 135, Gillespie Road, South of Parker ...

Significance: The building is a major component of manufacturing facilities constructed at Watervliet Arsenal during World War II and is a building in which advanced technology was employed in the manufacture o... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 211, Bridge & Tacony Streets, Philadel...

Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More

Camp of 5th Vt. [i.e. Vermont] Reg. Volunteers Camp Griffin Va.

Photograph shows camp of 5th Vermont Infantry Regiment at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia, with troops in formation. Attribution of G.H. Houghton as photographer from "A very fine appearance" : the Vermont Civi... More

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse M-4, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mi...

Significance: With the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917, the War Department chose a site on the Raritan River in New Jersey as the U.S. Army's primary base for the storage and transshipmen... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier on the foot passages in the trenches of Fort Mahone with blood on his face, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6178. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 66, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fo...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: It is one of four large phased-array radars designed and built by Raytheon. PAVE PAWS was the first solid-state, phase-phase steered array radar operational in the world. The PAVE PAWS at Beale an... More

Mount Gleason Nike Missile Site, Angeles National Forest, South of Sol...

Significance: The Mt. Gleason facility is significant for several reasons. It was the first Nike unit planned and constructed in the Angeles National Forest, and it operated for the longest period of time amon... More

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 4, 212 Tenth Street, Honolulu, Honolulu...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plants... More

[Morris Island, S.C. Closer view of same]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Morris Island, S.C. Closer view of same]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Exterior of sally port, Fort Moultrie, outside, March 1865

Photograph shows a guard standing at the war damaged sally port from outside of Fort Moultrie, on Sullivans Island. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Winter quarters of the Engineer Corps.

Stereograph showing Colonel Ira Spaulding standing at the entrance of his winter quarters covered with pine boughs at the camp of the 50th New York Engineer Corps, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 1047. Part of series... More

[Inside view of a fort after the battle, possibly Sumter, with four vi...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Connecticut State Pier, State Pier Road at Thames River, New London, N...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Connecticut State Pier, State Pier Road at Thames River, New London, N...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Winter quarters at Centreville, Virginia

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type G, 205 Seventh Street, Honolulu, ...

Significance: THIS HOUSING PLANNED FOR THE NEW AIR BASE WAS DESIGNED "IN KEEPING WITH THE HAWAIIAN ATMOSPHERE AND TRADITIONS" WITH SOME BUILDINGS PLACED ON CURVING STREETS AND AMIDST EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPING PLANT... More

In the Provost's Office. Charleston, 1866

Title inscribed below image. Paper preprinted on verso: Headquarters, Post of Charleston, Dept. S.C., PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Charleston, S.C., 1866. Formerly Waud no. C-59. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-19... More

"The Swamp Angel" / G.T. Lape, photographer, 146 Chatham St., N.Y.

Photograph shows Parrott cannon named Swamp Angel inside battery designed by Edward Wellman Serrell of 1st New York Engineers Regiment for Morris Island, South Carolina. Neg. no. B8184-10378.

A general view of Ft. McAllister, GA.

Photograph shows the interior fortifications of Fort McAllister after General Sherman's march through Georgia. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date and photographer based on variant image in... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 223, South side Hagner Road between Me...

Significance: Constructed as a railroad loading platform, Building 223 is associated with the large-scale expansion of Frankford Arsenal that resulted from the United States' entry into World War I. Survey num... More

Fort Barry, Signal Corps Radar 296, Station 5, Transmitter Building Fo...

Significance: The S.C.R. 296 Station 5 Transmitter Building Foundation is important for its supporting role in the seacoast defenses of the San Francisco Bay. Station 5 supported the S.C.R. 296, a highly sensit... More

Hickam Field, Fort Kamehameha Officers' Housing Type Z, 19 Worchester ...

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

Hickam Field, Fort Kamehameha Officers' Housing Type Z, 19 Worchester ...

Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hilton Head, S.C. Rear view of Fort Walker]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862.

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Generator-Fire Pump Building, 3300...

Significance: Building 115 is a non-contributing building to the overall historic integrity of the Facility because it was constructed after the period of significance for this Facility. The building was constr... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 201, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Inside Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows war damaged sally port and buildings inside of Fort Moultrie. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3066. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Fort Sumter. IX. 10, Confederate States of America.

Three views of the fort. Signed on verso: Return to Mr. Alfred Waud South Orange, N.J. Titled inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.119) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type P, 403K Signer Avenue, Honolulu, ...

Significance: The Type P housing units were part of the development of HIckam Air Base in the late 1930s and early 1940s as the Army Air Corps shifted its operations from Ford Island and utilized the larger ar... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, General Storehouse, Eighth Street at Av...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was constructed as part of what was an urgent buildup of industrial and support facilities at the Shipyard in anticipation of W... More

View of the east face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor...

Stereograph showing a damaged cannon among the rocks, cannon shells, and debris of the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 3125, from series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Han... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Hangar 6, South End of Ford Island, Pea...

Significance: Hangar 6 is believed to be the oldest aircraft hangar in Hawaii. It played an unglamorous but significant role in the development of naval aviation in the Pacific and in the World War II offensiv... More

Interior of Fort Steadman in front of Petersburg, Va.

Photograph showing the various supports used behind the wall of the parapet at Fort Steadman. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, ... More

Fort Baker, Garage, Umia Street parking lot, Sausalito, Marin County, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nike Hercules Missile Battery, Tare Site, Launching Structure, Fairban...

Survey number: HAER AK-20-B Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bombproof Facilities, Various locations...

Significance: The bombproof buildings at Pearl Harbor Naval Base include several distinctive building types which were all constructed circa 1942, typically in response to the December 7, 1941 attack. However, ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bombproof Facilities, Various locations...

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Central Service Building, North of Buildi...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-BV Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Base Chapel, 350 Willow Street, Cantonme...

Significance: Building 611 is significant as an example of the World War II 800 series mobilization-type regimental chapel that used the optional laminated arch roof system rather than the wood-framed truss sys... More

Scene at City Point, Va. - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing an overview of the military railroad depot and supply trains chosen by General Grant as his supply headquarters. In the distance are sailing ships on the James River. No. 2514. Part of serie... More

Headquarters Gen'l Magruder, Yorktown - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing an exterior view of a building used as the headquarters for Confederate General John B. Magruder in Yorktown, Virginia. Groups of people stand in the foreground. No. 449. Part of series: Pho... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near ...

Significance: Facilities 155 & 155A are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Facility 155 was constructed as part of the major buildup of permanent shop facilities at the Shipyard in anti... More

Clear Air Force Station, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Site I...

Significance: The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was constructed in 1958-61 in response to the threat of a potential Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) attack from the Soviet Union (demon... More

Clear Air Force Station, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Site I...

Maryland shore above Matawoman [sic] and Mouth of Occoquan, Battery of...

Two scenes.

[Charleston, S.C. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter]

Photograph of the Federal Navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North...

Significance: It was one of 20 similar installations in "Wing V" of the country's Mintueman ICBM force. Land-based ICBMs played a vital role in American strategic policy during the Cold War. With the Navy's sea... More

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site ...

Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), looking toward Morris Island

Stereograph showing four men amidst the debris of the outer wall of Fort Sumter as a result of the bombardment from August 17 to September 23, 1863. Also showing chevaux-de-frise for protection against assault.... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Dow...

Significance: Building 6 was constructed in 1955 to support the North American Missile Programs. Substantial design efforts for the Navaho (X-10), Hound Dog (GAM77) and Little Joe Programs were performed in thi... More

Detroit Arsenal, 6501 East Eleven Mile Road, Warren, Macomb County, MI

Significance: Having been constructed by the Chrysler Corporation in 1940, Detroit Arsenal contains one of America's foremost World War II manufacturing plants. An important example of industrial design, by wa... More

Detroit Arsenal, 6501 East Eleven Mile Road, Warren, Macomb County, MI

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

Commissary dept. Hd.qts. Army of the Potomac

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Ruins of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.]

Stereograph showing a wall of casemates, a flagpole, and other debris inside of Fort Sumter. Manuscript note on back of stereo: Fort Sumter after Gen. Anderson[?] flag staff was shot away by shot from [...]. O... More

Interior of the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnat...

Stereograph showing various types of fortifications including earthworks, gabions, sandbags, logs, and chevaux-de-frise in Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Va. No. 3219, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The W... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, U.S. Route 9, Plattsburgh, Clinton County,...

Significance: For over 100 years, the U.S. has maintained a military presence at the site of the now closed Plattsburgh AFB. During the Civil War, Union troops organized and departed from the base; during the S... More

[Washington, D.C. Coffins and open graves ready for the conspirators' ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse ...

Significance: Launch Complex 17 has played a key role in the American space program by supporting over 260 launches since 1957. Constructed in 1956 and 1957, the complex originally supported the Air Force's Th... More

Interior of the Malakoff with the remains of the round tower W. Simpso...

Print shows an interior view of the Malakoff, the main Russian fortification before Sevastopolʹ, following the successful French assault. Colnaghi's Authentic Series. Plate 27.

Confederate fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of Americ...

Soldiers inside Confederate fortification, Atlanta, Ga. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Camp of Engineers in Brandy Station, 1864

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upside down lower left: 1st Brig, 3 div, 2nd c. Formerly Waud no. C-66. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.993) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A large gun in the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virgi...

Stereograph showing a cannon mounted on inner line of Confederate fortifications. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Imprinted on card: "It i... More

[The Imperial Pavilion at Tophane] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 78. In album: Imperial Gun and Small Arms Factory, barracks and cannons, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-... More

Confederate evacuation of Morris's Island, Confederate States of Ameri...

Soldiers moving across water, during evacuation of Morris Island, Sept. 1863. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War / Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden. Chicago : The Puritan Press Co., c18... More

General view, Medical Officers Training Camp, Camp Greenleaf, Ga.

J232423 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chattanooga, Tenn., P.O. Box 233. Neg. no. 564G. Copyright deposit; Gravelle Pictorial News Service; December 26, 1918; DLC/PP-1919:45907.

Camp Pontanè̀zen. Brest, France, Panoramic Photograph

Transfer; LC Veteran's History Project; 2010; DLC/PP-2010:112. No. 7127.

Military subjects. Camp of range section at Fort Hancock, New Jersey

Job title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the... More

Pentagon. Exterior of Pentagon from across water III

Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More

Hard night, S/Sgt. Mozzi - Public domain dedication image

Sketch showing soldier sitting with his head on his lap while stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 3, [p. 31] Victor A. Lundy Archi... More

Submarine base, New London, Connecticut. Diesel building

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ordnance building, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Exterior from field

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site ...

Winter quarters at Centreville, Virginia during American Civil War

Brady-Handy Collection. Similar view with slightly different cropping: LOT 4169, no. 16.

Yorktown, Virginia Confederate sandbag fortifications. Washington DC s...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Brandy Station, Virginia Chief Engineer's camp; another view

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washin... More

Fort Monroe, Virginia Officers and ladies on porch of a garrison house

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Fort Monroe, Va. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Don... More

Arlington, Virginia Company F, 2d New York Artillery at Fort C.F. Smit...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. N... More

Washington, D.C. General William Hoffman, Commissary General of Prison...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0738 Title fr... More

Charleston, S.C. Blakely guns and ammunition in the Arsenal yard

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view of transverse and magazine on the land...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Fort Fisher, N.C., January 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. M... More

Morris Island, S.C. Battery of 100-pdr. Parrott guns inside Fort Putna...

Charleston, S.C. View, from roof of Orphan Asylum; The Citadel in midd...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews

Petersburg, Virginia Federal soldiers removing artillery from Confeder...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Winter quarters at Centreville, Virginia during American Civil War

Brady-Handy Collection. Similar view with slightly different cropping: LOT 4169, no. 16.

Phillips Island, S.C. Fort Beauregard, Confederate States of America.

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Mi... More

Yorktown, Virginia Confederate sandbag fortifications, Confederate Sta...

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