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Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ : nec non partis Virginiæ tabula multis in ...

Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and...

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: London and Washington D.C. "Entered according to Act of Congress, July 10th, 1839, by David H. Burr, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Col... More

[Interior view of a large convention hall filled with people sitting i...

Gift; Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Massachusetts; 1933; (DLC/PP-1933:0070). Date based on use of the 35-star flag in decorations around the hall.

[New Brighton Pier, Liverpool, England] view, photochrome print postca...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10279". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[New Road, Ramsgate, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10239". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Bench show, Apr. 1, 2, 3, and 4, New England kennel club, Mechanic's h...

9730 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. New England Kennel Clu... More

[Thorpe, New Reach, Norwich, England] view, photochrome print postcard...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10137". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Small collection of nocturnes, marines & chevalet pieces by Mr. Whistl...

Poster for exhibition of art by James Abbott McNeill Whistler at Goupil Galleries, London. Forms part of: Pennell collection of Whistleriana (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-1917:R01

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of British poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictio... More

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D8766 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Lucretia - "Read the letter, but stop up your ears so you can't hear it." Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York... More

Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock ...

Title from jacket. "39" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068111. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

ARC officers from England, France and Italy, in conference at London H...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Eng. Group title: Personnel, England. Data: New England Div. 11/18. Penn. Div... More

A busy day on the Red Cross bus line, which carries wounded soldiers f...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Mutiles, England. On caption card: D-3. Data: New England. 11/18. N.W. Division 11/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. Gener... More

The scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited: The Tuscania cemetary at...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. London. Group title: Tuscania Disaster. Data: Lake, Potomac, Pacific, New ... More

American Red Cross hospital for the United States Navy, Park Lane, Lon...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Eng. Group title: Hospitals, England. Data: Southern Div. 10/28/18. Penn. ... More

Amer. Nurses on the porch of their Red Cross Club house on the banks o...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Nurses, England. On caption card: B-77. Data: Credits. New England. 11/18. N.W. Division. 11/18. Lake Div. 11/18. S.W. Div. 11/18. Gulf Div. ... More

New England hurricane. Corner of barn in Connecticut showing how the b...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Amherst, Massachusetts

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.

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn near Amherst, Massachusetts

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.

New England hurricane. Pine wood lot near North Brookfield, Massachuse...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

World's Fair. New England exhibit general view I

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New Yo... More

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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

Street in Woodstock, Vermont. One of the oldest towns in New England. ...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Milk truck in front of the New England Dairies in Enosburg Falls, Verm...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One third of the income from many localities in New England comes out ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Workers leaving docks at a New Engl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel dis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Eight vessels slid into the water i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York, New York. New England fisherman aboard their ship at Fulton ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On board the fishing boat Alden, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Fis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community was founded in 178... More

Boott Cotton Mills complex, Lowell, Massachusetts

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Boott Cotton Mills complex contains mills built fro... More

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before pu...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Peaceful New England harbor

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Isaiah Davenport House, Savannah, Georgia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Here, visitors glimpse the American past when the natio... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history mus... More

Sunbathers along the New England coast

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

One of the buildings on the idyllic Bread Loaf Mountain campus of Midd...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This branch campus is home to the School of English, which sponsors notable writers' conferences. The campus has a strong connection t... More

Oil painting "New England Elegy" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Buildi...

Artist: Robert Motherwell, 1966. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

New England Carousel Museum, Bristol, Connecticut

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

New England Laborers Academy, Pomfret, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The "minute-men" of the revolution

Print shows a man on horseback pointing to the distance as two other men prepare to leave with their rifles. A woman on the porch passes a rifle to one man as a younger woman with a child looks distraught. G740... More

Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main Street, Avon, Hartford County,...

Significance: The Avon Congregational Church Meeting House, built in 1819, is considered to be among the finest works of skilled local architect/builder David Hoadley. He designed numerous churches and residenc... More

Golden Gloves Boxing Championship at the Lowell Auditorium, Lowell, Ma...

Index data: All of the following photographs were made at the Golden Gloves Boxing Championship at the Lowell Auditorium. 1-3, Boxers in ring. 3 is a good photo; 4-8, Long views of ring with spectators and came... More

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... More

A strange disclosure; a tale of New England life ..

Also available in digital form.

The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap / Wm. Charles, Sc.

Charles's satire attacks the Hartford Convention, a series of secret meetings of New England Federalists held in December 1814. The artist caricatures radical secessionist leader Timothy Pickering and lampoons... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abut...

Significance: Now part of the Ross Tavern site, the Proctor House represents early New England architectural expression. Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings cites "the cyma molded overhanging girt, the crease mol... More

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abut...

Significance: Now part of the Ross Tavern site, the Proctor House represents early New England architectural expression. Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings cites "the cyma molded overhanging girt, the crease mol... More

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abut...

Significance: Now part of the Ross Tavern site, the Proctor House represents early New England architectural expression. Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings cites "the cyma molded overhanging girt, the crease mol... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Corser Hill Meeting House, Webster, Merrimack County, NH

Significance: A typical early 19th century New England meeting house with good proportions and a well-designed tower. Excellent Federal style details, such as Palladian window over main entrance. Survey numbe... More

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More

Cabot Station Electric Generating Plant, Gantry Crane, Montague City R...

Significance: The gantry crane is an integral part of Cabot Station, an early and substantial example of American hydroelectric engineering. When built, the plant as the largest hydroelectric facility in New E... More

Norfolk Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill, 90 Milton Street, Dedham, N...

Significance: The 1835 mill is typical in scale of New England fabric production at the time, but is unusual because it was based on Rhode Island stone mills, rather than the more usual brick type found in Mass... More

Norfolk Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill, 90 Milton Street, Dedham, N...

Significance: The 1835 mill is typical in scale of New England fabric production at the time, but is unusual because it was based on Rhode Island stone mills, rather than the more usual brick type found in Mass... More

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Significance: Sunday River Bridge is a very well executed speciment of the bridge truss designed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. This truss became the dominant style in covered br... More

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Significance: Sunday River Bridge is a very well executed speciment of the bridge truss designed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. This truss became the dominant style in covered br... More

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Clinton Mill is typical of the large stone cotton textile mills of Rhode I... More

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Clinton Mill is typical of the large stone cotton textile mills of Rhode I... More

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County...

Significance: This is the third "Gothick" church built in New England and one of the earliest built in America. Christ Church played a pioneering role, introducing a new architectural style to America. This sty... More

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County...

Significance: This is the third "Gothick" church built in New England and one of the earliest built in America. Christ Church played a pioneering role, introducing a new architectural style to America. This sty... More

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

Whittinsville Brick Mill, 56 Douglas Road, Northbridge, Worcester Cou...

Significance: This is the earliest of 3 cotton manufacturing complexes found in this prototypical New England Mill village. It was built in 1826 by Col. Paul Whitin & Sons and is one of the most significant ex... More

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord...

Significance: In service from 1888-1952, is the last structure of its kind in the U.S. still containing its original gasholder. Similar structures were a common feature in the urban areas of New England and upp... More

St. Andrew's Church (Episcopal), Hopkinton Village, Hopkinton, Merrima...

Significance: Built of ashlar, it is typical of early Episcopal churches in New England. Interesting as possessing spire designed by the well known firm of Cram and Ferguson in 1930; it was their intention to ... More

Davol Mills, Rodman Street & Plymouth Avenue, Fall River, Bristol Coun...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Davol Mills were constructed beginning in 1867-1868 (No. 1 Mill). They ar... More

Davol Mills, Rodman Street & Plymouth Avenue, Fall River, Bristol Coun...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Davol Mills were constructed beginning in 1867-1868 (No. 1 Mill). They ar... More

Curtis Tavern, State Route 57, Granville, Hampden County, MA

Significance: One of five structures built in the Granville area by a skilled craftsman; though his name is unrecorded, this structure attests to his impact on the built landscape of New England. Unprocessed F... More

Boston & Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Alba...

Significance: The Marion Street Bridge is one of only twelve known surviving double-intersection Warren pony trusses in New England. It was one of many bridges manufactured and erected for the Boston & Albany ... More

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry ...

Significance: The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William Douglas's 1878 patent for a wrought-rion lenticular truss bridge. It is one of approximately fifty lenticular ... More

Munroe Tavern, 1332 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Middlesex County,...

Significance: The earliest portion of the structure is traditionally believed to have been built in 1695 by William Munroe. Operated as a tavern by the builder's grandson, Sergeant William Munroe of the Lexing... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Quartermaster's & Commisary Storehou...

Significance: The Quartermaster's and Commissary Storehouse retains its integrity of location,design, materials, workmanship, and to a large degree, setting. It was built in connection with the development of ... More