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[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman smooth-bore siege guns]

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road & Thomas Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road &...

Significance: Building 301 was constructed as the principal power plant for Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's main supplier of ammunition throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The buil... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road & Thomas Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road &...

Significance: Building 301 was constructed as the principal power plant for Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's main supplier of ammunition throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The buil... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Hangar 6, South End of Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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

Jackson Barracks, Officers Quarters, 6400 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Jackson Barracks, Officers Quarters, 6400 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orl...

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Building No. 8 is located at the north end of the parade ground, and is one of four buildings that comprise the quadrangle of enlisted men's quarters. It feat... More

View of Charleston S.C. from Fort Wagner, Morris Isla

View of Charleston S.C. from Fort Wagner, Morris Isla

Flag view across harbor, toward city and waterfront. Confederate flags flying over docks, and fortress at right. Title inscribed below image. Transfer, Map Division.

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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

[Washington, D.C. Wiard 6-pdr. gun at the Arsenal]

[Washington, D.C. Wiard 6-pdr. gun at the Arsenal]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph of military forces, army, artillery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Washington, D.C. Wiard 6-pdr. gun at the Arsenal]

[Washington, D.C. Wiard 6-pdr. gun at the Arsenal]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph of military forces, army, artillery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment; another view]

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment; another view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Base Chapel, 350 Willow Street, Cantonment Area, Mountain Home, Elmore County, ID

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pearl City Peninsula, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pearl City Peninsula, Pearl City, Honol...

Significance: This peninsula is significant for its pre-WWII civilian history, the Pan American Airways history in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the Navy history of this peninsula during and after the war... More

Picket Post (Union), Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 1864

Picket Post (Union), Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 1864

Photograph shows a group of soldiers with their weapons near a shelter after the occupation of Atlanta. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sullivan's Island), S.C., looking N.E.

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. No. 3123, part of series: War Views. Printed on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 5... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 142, Intersection of Sicard Street & Patterson Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 142, Intersection of Sicard Street & Patterson...

Significance: Building 142 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near Avenue C, Adjacent to Repair Basins, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near Avenue C, Adjacent to Repair Basins, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near Avenue C, Adjacent to Repair Basins, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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 II, One mile west of mile marker 293.5 on Parks Highway, 5 miles southwest of Anderson, Anderson, Denali Borough, AK

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

Palmetto fortifications on the channel side of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter)

Palmetto fortifications on the channel side of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumt...

Stereograph showing war damaged brick walls and timber reinforcements on exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 336, part of series: War Views. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LOT 13461, no. 34. Copyright 1865... More

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfiel...

Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pi... More

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfiel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay South, Old Tampa Bay West, & Hillsborough Bay East, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay Sout...

See HABS FL-384-A through FL-384-AY for additional information. Significance: The period of significance of MacDill Air Force Base is 1939 to 1945. The Base, along with seven other installations, was planned t... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay South, Old Tampa Bay West, & Hillsborough Bay East, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay Sout...

See HABS FL-384-A through FL-384-AY for additional information. Significance: The period of significance of MacDill Air Force Base is 1939 to 1945. The Base, along with seven other installations, was planned t... More

[8th Company soldiers at a military camp, possibly in Washington, D.C.]

[8th Company soldiers at a military camp, possibly in Washington, D.C....

Photograph shows soldiers in front of a camp tent; an African American man, kneeling to the left of the group, is working with a bucket.

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter)

Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter)

Stereograph showing ruins of artillery among the rocks on the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 348, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-305... More

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North of New Raymer & State Highway 14, New Raymer, Weld County, CO

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

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Burma Road, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...

Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Holston Army Ammunition Plant, RDX-and-Composition-B Manufacturing Line 9, Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN

Holston Army Ammunition Plant, RDX-and-Composition-B Manufacturing Lin...

Significance: Line 9 is highly representative of the 10 production lines constructed at HSAAP during WWII for the manufacture of the military high explosive Composition B, and its chief ingredient RDX. These bu... More

Winter camp of the 16th Michigan

Winter camp of the 16th Michigan

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

NASA Industrial Plant, Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

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

NASA Industrial Plant, Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

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

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

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

Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Hanger No. 1, Cummins Avenue, Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA

Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Hanger No. 1, Cummins Avenue, Moffett...

Significance: In the nation's quest to provide security for the lengthy expanse of its coastlines the opportunity for air reconnaissance was realized by the futuristic Admiral William A. Moffett. Through his ef... More

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

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

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

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

Exterior view of Fort Sumter, S.C.

Exterior view of Fort Sumter, S.C.

Stereograph showing war damaged brick walls and timber reinforcements on the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 6056. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to George ... More

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, fall 1863

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, fall 1863

Drawing shows a military camp at the base of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. "N.20" upper left corner. "Lookout Mountain[?]" written bottom left side. Code on mat (so... More

Adjutant Generals office head quarters, Army of the Potomac

Adjutant Generals office head quarters, Army of the Potomac

Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in Harpers Weekly, 18 April 1863. Part of series with Waud, no. 76 and Waud, no. 98. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.99) Forms part... More

Provost marshal's office, Aquia Creek negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. positive by A. Gardner

Provost marshal's office, Aquia Creek negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. pos...

Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front of the temporary location of the marshal's office. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & S... More

Court house, Murfreesboro, Tenn. Quarters of provost guard of General Geary's command / / Butler, Bonsall & Co., Army photographers, General Rousseau's division.

Court house, Murfreesboro, Tenn. Quarters of provost guard of General ...

Photograph shows court house when used as quarters for General John White Geary's provost guard with troops, tents, and horse and wagon in front. Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room.

Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Virginia, interior view, April 3, 1864

Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Virginia, interior view, April 3, 186...

Photograph shows a view from a rooftop of Fort Ellsworth named for Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a Union officer killed in 1861. No. 271.

Head quarters near Jerusalem "pike", A. of P.

Head quarters near Jerusalem "pike", A. of P.

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

Parade ground at Fort Wingate, 1873 / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Parade ground at Fort Wingate, 1873 / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Title from National Archives and Records Administration record. "M. Y. Boughton, Builder. Court House, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer" printed on verso. Possibly part of geographica... More

National Naval Medical Center. Front of National Naval Medical Center from right II

National Naval Medical Center. Front of National Naval Medical Center ...

Old negative number: 1238-13. 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 1... More

Military subjects. Deck of military transport ship II

Military subjects. Deck of military transport ship II

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

Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. V

Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. V

Image has caption 1930 to 1945, and consists of several smaller images including, from upper right, clockwise: the Meridian Hill Hotel, the National Medical Center, the National Archives, the Pentagon, National... More

Submarine base, New London, Connecticut. School room

Submarine base, New London, Connecticut. School room

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Submarine base, New London, Connecticut. Operating room in dispensary

Submarine base, New London, Connecticut. Operating room in dispensary

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

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 204, Northeast corner of Craid Road & Heath Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 204, Northeast corner of Craid Road & ...

Significance: Building 204 is associated with the twentieth century development and expansion of Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's principal manufacturer of small arms ammunition. Survey number: HAER PA-74-BE... More

Aliamanu Valley Community for military family housing, Honolulu, HI

Aliamanu Valley Community for military family housing, Honolulu, HI

Photograph shows drawing with view of buildings nestled on the crater floor. Building façade is finished in wood. Client: US Government, Corps of Engineers. Title, date, and creator based on information provid... More

Army barracks (Ashraf Abad) - A black and white photo of a group of people

Army barracks (Ashraf Abad) - A black and white photo of a group of pe...

Men, some with guns, crouching on and around a pile of dirt, army barracks, Tehran, Iran. Title from photographer. No. 225. No. 25 GA. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:068.53

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Moscow Radar Site Transmit Sector Two Sounder Antennas, At the end of Steam Road, Moscow, Somerset County, ME

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

Public domain photograph of electric wires, power line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Mi... More

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of rear parapet

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of rear parapet

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. ... More

Confederate, now Federal Quartermaster's Department, Yorktown M.B. Brady

Confederate, now Federal Quartermaster's Department, Yorktown M.B. Bra...

Photograph shows Union soldiers standing outside storage building with African American man holding horse. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 400. Printed on recto: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1... More

Fort Monroe, Virginia Officers of 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

Fort Monroe, Virginia Officers of 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

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

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

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

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), shewing (i.e. showing) gabions and bomb proofs

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), shewing (i.e. showing) gabions...

Stereograph showing the parapet and interior of Fort Sumter with gabions used as reinforcements in construction of a bombproof structure. No. 337, part of series: War Views. Handwritten on verso: Miller, vol. ... More

Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town

Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D... More

Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter, with gabion reinforcements

Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter, with gabion reinforcements

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

Charleston, S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 8, 1863

Charleston, S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 8,...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1862-1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Washington, D.C. General John F. Hartranft reading the death warrant to the conspirators on the scaffold

Washington, D.C. General John F. Hartranft reading the death warrant t...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Photograph includes woman. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge,... More

Charleston, S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter awaiting the flag-raising

Charleston, S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter awaiting the flag-raising

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1862-1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Morris Island, S.C. Closer view of same

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Charleston, S.C. Interior view of Fort Moultrie, looking eastward

Charleston, S.C. Interior view of Fort Moultrie, looking eastward

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

James River, Virginia Confederate gun in Battery Brooks

James River, Virginia Confederate gun in Battery Brooks

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

Arlington, Virginia Interior view of Fort C.F. Smith, with gun crew of Company L, 2d New York Artillery

Arlington, Virginia Interior view of Fort C.F. Smith, with gun crew of...

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

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Hangar No. 101 and Hangar No. 102, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Hangar No. 101 and Hangar ...

Significance: Hangars 101 and 102 at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Hawaii are significant for their association with American military history and architecture. First, the two buildings are part of the U.S. military ... More

Fort Belvoir Railroad Bridge, Spanning US Route 1, Accotink, Fairfax County, Virginia

Fort Belvoir Railroad Bridge, Spanning US Route 1, Accotink, Fairfax C...

Significance: The Fort Belvoir Military Railroad was constructed to support World War I mobilization efforts and was begun in January 1918. Construction work was completed by military engineers augmented by civ... More

Rendezvous of distribution. Birds eye view of camp convalescent near Alexandria, Virginia

Rendezvous of distribution. Birds eye view of camp convalescent near A...

Print shows two bird's-eye views of Union military facilities established during the Civil War in Alexandria, Virginia. Numbered key at top and lettered key at bottom identify the locations of camp and hospital... More

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. ... More

Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun

Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. M... More

Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Virginia

Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Vir...

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

Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Virginia; another view

Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Vir...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Stereo filed in LOT 4169. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Was... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Breastworks on Little Round Top; Round Top in distance

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Breastworks on Little Round Top; Round Top in...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Breastworks on left wing of the Federal line

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Breastworks on left wing of the Federal line

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... More

Chattanooga, Tenn., vicinity. Blockhouse on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad

Chattanooga, Tenn., vicinity. Blockhouse on the Nashville & Chattanoog...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Battle of Chattanooga, September-November 1863. After Rosecrans' debacle at Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Bragg's army occupied the mountain... More

Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt), with officers and others on the scaffold; guards on the wall

Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne,...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Photograph includes woman. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge,... More

Richmond, Virginia Grounds of the ruined Arsenal with scattered shot and shell

Richmond, Virginia Grounds of the ruined Arsenal with scattered shot a...

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

Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Sedgwick

Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Sedgwick

Photograph of 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. : Library... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Saint Augustine, Fla. Sally port of Fort Marion

Saint Augustine, Fla. Sally port of Fort Marion

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Florida. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. M... More

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Savan... More

Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7

Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort N...

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 ab... More

Richmond, Virginia Stacked and scattered ammunition near the State Arsenal

Richmond, Virginia Stacked and scattered ammunition near the State Ars...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

James River, Virginia Another Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House, Trent's Reach

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

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

Charleston, S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view

Charleston, S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view

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. Interior view with another mounted gun, Fort Putnam

Morris Island, S.C. Interior view with another mounted gun, Fort Putna...

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

Charleston, S.C. Confederate torpedoes, shot, and shell in the Arsenal yard

Charleston, S.C. Confederate torpedoes, shot, and shell in the Arsenal...

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

District of Columbia. Soldiers at gate of Fort Slemmer

District of Columbia. Soldiers at gate of Fort Slemmer

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Stereo filed in LOT 4166. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Li... More

Petersburg, Virginia View from breastworks of Fort Sedgwick

Petersburg, Virginia View from breastworks of Fort Sedgwick

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

Fort Belvoir Railroad Bridge, Spanning US Route 1, Accotink, Fairfax County, Virginia

Fort Belvoir Railroad Bridge, Spanning US Route 1, Accotink, Fairfax C...

Significance: The Fort Belvoir Military Railroad was constructed to support World War I mobilization efforts and was begun in January 1918. Construction work was completed by military engineers augmented by civ... More

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Dog Pound, U.S. Coast Guard Station, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, AK

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Dog Pound, U.S. Coast Guard Station, Kodi...

Survey number: HABS AK-47-P National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002731

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

[Rebel Headquarters at Centreville with Bull Run in the distance]

[Rebel Headquarters at Centreville with Bull Run in the distance]

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title devised from Harper's engraving. Published in: Harper's Weekly, March 29, 1862, p. 204. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.375) Forms part of: Morgan collection of C... More

The Union Line before Petersburg, Va., during the long siege. This gives a good idea of our Line, which was miles in length, and was thoroughly occupied

The Union Line before Petersburg, Va., during the long siege. This giv...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers in fortified trenches. No. 756. Corrected title, date, and photographer from record for original negative. Copyright 1904 by John C. Taylor. Forms part of: Civil War Photogra... More

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