First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...
Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.
![Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] et pais voisins : dediée à M. le Comte de Maurepas, ministre et secretaire d'etat commandeur des ordres du roy /](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/05/carte-de-la-louisiane-cours-du-mississipi-ie-mississippi-et-pais-voisins-dediee-7f2a17-640.jpg "Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] et pais voisins : dediée à M. le Comte de Maurepas, ministre et secretaire d'etat commandeur des ordres du roy /")
Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] et pais v...
Covers United States west of Rio Grande River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ima... more
Commodore Hopkins, commander in chief of the American Fleet
Print shows Esek Hopkins, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing front, with sword drawn during naval engagement; ships in background display "Dont tread upon me" and "Liberty Tree - A... more
Robert Rogers - commandeur der Americaner
Print shows Robert Rogers, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing slightly left, with musket nestled in crook of left elbow, and Native American standing in the background.
Commodore Hopkins - commandeur en chef der Amerj: flotte
Print shows Esek Hopkins, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing front, with sword drawn during naval engagement. Title from item. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa... more
John Paul Jones, commodore au service des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique / d...
Print shows John Paul Jones, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, standing on board ship during battle, reaching with left hand for one of several pistols at his waist, right hand holds sword.
![Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forces](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1780/01/01/robert-ie-esek-hopkins-esqr-commodore-of-the-american-sea-forces-640.jpg "Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forces")
Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forc...
Print shows Esek Hopkins, full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, holding sword at left side, two pistols in his belt. He is standing on shore, pointing to his left, with ships in the background.
Virginia Council, April 19, 1781, Invasion by British Navy; Extract fr...
Invasion by British Navy; Extract from Journals
Commodore Hopkins / R. Pollard sc.
Print shows Esek Hopkins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, in oval.
The caneing in Conduit Street. Dedicated to the flag officers of the B...
Caricature showing a stout naval officer attacked by Lord Camelford, who says, "Give me satisfction, rascal! Draw your sword..." Captain Vancouver replies, "Murder! Murder! ..." The print may reflect the growin... more
![[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Plan - flue, fly wheel, cistern, etc.]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1808/01/01/steam-engine-washington-navy-yard-washington-dc-plan-flue-fly-wheel-cistern-640.jpg "[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Plan - flue, fly wheel, cistern, etc.]")
[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Plan - flue, fly...
Inscriptions on recto: "Plan. " "September 28th 1808" "28." Delineator: James Smallwood. (Source: The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, New Haven, Conn. : Published for the Maryland Historica... more
![[Scene with windmill on right, Brooklyn Navy Yard to left]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/05/scene-with-windmill-on-right-brooklyn-navy-yard-to-left-68905f-640.jpg "[Scene with windmill on right, Brooklyn Navy Yard to left]")
[Scene with windmill on right, Brooklyn Navy Yard to left]
(DLC/PP-1995:140.256) Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 256. Title from item. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).
James Lawrence Esqr. late of the United States Navy / Stuart pinxt ; R...
Print shows James Lawrence, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform.
![Cash in hand, occassioned by the capture of the British Packet Swallow. by Commodore Rodgers, with 260,000 dollars, in gold and silver on board. Boston printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Corner Theatre-Alley [1813].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1813/01/01/cash-in-hand-occassioned-by-the-capture-of-the-british-packet-swallow-by-commodore-640.jpg "Cash in hand, occassioned by the capture of the British Packet Swallow. by Commodore Rodgers, with 260,000 dollars, in gold and silver on board. Boston printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Corner Theatre-Alley [1813].")
![Tuesday, September 21st, (noon.) Most glorious news. Copy of a letter from Com. Perry to the Secretary of the Navy. U. S. Brig. Niagara, off the Western Sister, Head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M. [Washington 1813].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/04/tuesday-september-21st-noon-most-glorious-news-copy-of-a-letter-from-com-perry-590ebb-640.jpg "Tuesday, September 21st, (noon.) Most glorious news. Copy of a letter from Com. Perry to the Secretary of the Navy. U. S. Brig. Niagara, off the Western Sister, Head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M. [Washington 1813].")
Tuesday, September 21st, (noon.) Most glorious news. Copy of a letter ...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 190, Folder 26.
![[Cuts] A happy new-year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the president and Congress. A song composed on the arrival of those frigates in Boston yesterday, (December 31, 1812,) with a good supply of the Ready Rhino [Boston] Printed by N. Cover](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1813/01/01/cuts-a-happy-new-year-to-commodore-rodgers-or-huzza-for-the-president-and-congress-640.jpg "[Cuts] A happy new-year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the president and Congress. A song composed on the arrival of those frigates in Boston yesterday, (December 31, 1812,) with a good supply of the Ready Rhino [Boston] Printed by N. Cover")
![A complete list of the American navy. showing the name, number of guns, commander's name, and station of each vessel, to October, 1813- Including those on the lakes. [1813].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1813/01/01/a-complete-list-of-the-american-navy-showing-the-name-number-of-guns-commanders-640.jpg "A complete list of the American navy. showing the name, number of guns, commander's name, and station of each vessel, to October, 1813- Including those on the lakes. [1813].")
This portrait of Captn. Isaac Hull, of the United States Navy: ... / G...
Print showing Captain Isaac Hull, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform, and holding hat under left arm.
The troops disembarking to attack Fort Oswego, under the command of Ge...
Seascape drawing shows British sailors leaving their ships and rowing toward Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. The 2nd battalion of the Royal Marines, under Lieutenant General Sir George Gordo... more
![Capture of Washington [Cut] On Wednesday, August 24, there was a severe action at Bladensburgh, six miles from the Capitol. "Baltimore has acquired immortal honor by the brave resistance of Commodore Barney, his sailors and the bold volunteers."](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1814/01/01/capture-of-washington-cut-on-wednesday-august-24-there-was-a-severe-action-640.jpg "Capture of Washington [Cut] On Wednesday, August 24, there was a severe action at Bladensburgh, six miles from the Capitol. \"Baltimore has acquired immortal honor by the brave resistance of Commodore Barney, his sailors and the bold volunteers.\"")
Thomas MacDonough U.S.N.
Print shows Commodore Thomas MacDonough, half-length portrait in uniform.
This representation of the battle on Lake Erie is respectfully inscrib...
Print shows many ships from the stern engaged in battle on Lake Erie.
Navy yard, Washington, February 26, 1819. The opinion which had been e...
Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 191, Folder 6.
U.S. Reports: United States v. Macdaniel, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 1 (1833)
Description: U.S. Reports Volume 32; Peters Volume 7; January Term, 1833; United States, Plaintiffs in Error v. George Macdaniel, The
William Bainbridge, U.S.N. / painted by J.W. Jarvis ; engd by G. Parke...
Print shows William Bainbridge, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing military uniform.
Navy Yard, Brooklyn - for the Ladies' Companion / drawn by Lundie.
Print shows a group of people standing on a decayed section of the docks at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York.
Our country's flag! A new national song
Cover illustration for a patriotic song composed by George F. Cole, copyrighted in 1836. A young American seaman, holding an American flag with his right hand and raising his hat aloft with his left, stands on... more
An exploring expedition on the Canal Street plan / The exploring exped...
Print satirizes Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition, which left in August 1838. The upper left vignette shows Wilkes in a rowboat with scientists who use a transit or telescope to see fauna. The ... more
U.S. Ship Pennsylvania. Charles Stewart Esq. Comr. / Drawn on stone by...
Print showing the sailing battleship Pennsylvania.
Supreme court of the United States. Susan Decatur, Appellant vs J. K. ...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 197, Folder 1b.
The great American steeple chase for 1844
An imaginative and elaborate parody on the upcoming 1844 presidential campaign. The artist favors Whig nominee-apparent Henry Clay and is highly critical of incumbent John Tyler. The "chase" for the presidency ... more
A N.b.E. view of the fort on the western end of Sulivans Island with t...
Print shows Sullivan's Island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and Fort Sullivan; prominent features identified by letter with legend printed below image.
A N.W.b.N. view of Charles Town from on board the Bristol ... taken in...
Print shows Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, with the British fleet in the foreground, at the time of the assault on Fort Sullivan, with the city of Charleston visible in the background; prominent features id... more
U.S. Reports: Buchanan v. Alexander, 45 U.S. (4 How.) 20 (1845)
Description: U.S. Reports Volume 45; Howard Volume 4; January Term, 1846; McKean Buchanan, Plaintiff in Error, v. James Alexander
Defense of the California Bank
A mildly jingoistic satire voicing American suspicions of foreign designs on California after the discovery of gold there in 1848. The bay and coastline of San Francisco are shown, menaced by foreign invaders ... more
The great naval blockade of Round Island. Showing the immense importa...
A satire on Taylor administration efforts to curtail American "filibusters," armed expeditions against Cuba for the purpose of freeing the island from Spanish rule. Specific reference here is to the Navy's bloc... more
![[Sherard Osborn, lieut., Royal Navy, three-quarter length wood-engraved portrait, seated, facing front]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1850/01/01/sherard-osborn-lieut-royal-navy-three-quarter-length-wood-engraved-portrait-640.jpg "[Sherard Osborn, lieut., Royal Navy, three-quarter length wood-engraved portrait, seated, facing front]")
Monument to the memory of the "Herveor of Tripoli." The birth of the A...
Photograph shows the Tripoli Naval Monument on the grounds of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Moved in 1860 to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
The great pictorial romance of the age, or, steam ship commodores & Un...
American political cartoon about the awarding of United States mail contracts. Print shows steamships (two shaped like rocking horses) and a balloon labeled "California mail balloon via Nicaragua," with discuss... more
![[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1853/01/01/uss-susquehanna-commodore-perrys-flag-ship-full-starboard-view-640.jpg "[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]")
[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]
Drawing is on the "Susquehanna & Mississippil Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan.
Oliver Hazard Perry U.S.N. / engraved by J.B. Forrest from the origina...
Print shows Oliver H. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing on board a ship, facing slightly left. Title from item. Published in: The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans : with biograp... more
![[Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1854/01/01/commodore-matthew-c-perry-three-quarter-length-portrait-standing-facing-slightly-640.jpg "[Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword]")
First landing of Americans in Japan, under Commodore M.C. Perry at Gor...
Print showing sailors, officers, and members of the Japanese delegation in formations on the beach, also boats with dignitaries setting off from shore, and two American ships in the harbor.
U. S. Frigate Constitution, (Old Ironsides) ready for launching after ...
Photograph shows individuals, on long gang plank, leaving the U. S. Frigate Constitution; crew standing on top deck.
Columbia rules the sea
An emblem of an eagle supported by two American flags, illustrates the sheet music cover for a song by Josiah D. Canning. The eagle's wings are spread and its mouth holds a streamer with the composer's sobrique... more
Charlestown Navy Yard
Broadside view ship docked at navy yard and two images of sailboats.
![[Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Columbia]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1859/01/01/hospital-for-the-insane-of-the-army-and-navy-and-the-district-of-columbia-640.jpg "[Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Columbia]")
Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie / J.R. Chapin ; F.F. Walker...
Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry behind a cannon aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie, with men waving hats, and a rooster perched on an unattended cannon.
Joshua Barney, U.S.N. / engraved by J. Gross from a drawing by W.G. Ar...
Print shows Joshua Barney, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing right, holding sword.