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[Early photographic view of Washington, D.C. from Capitol Hill, lookin...

Northwest view with 1st, B, C, D streets, and Indiana Ave. in the foreground; view includes the Washington Jail, Aldrich's Wholesale Flour, Grain & Feed Warehouse, Dyers American House, Shamokin & Lykins Valley... More

Northwest Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dogs being used to plow, Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada]

Photo from Canadian Department of Interior. No. 1(?)-21-D.L.M. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

[Trading schooner, "Hayokhok," Herschel Island, Northwest Territories,...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Photo from the Canadian Department of Interior. No. 2591-1927-JAMC

Great canning industries of the Northwest - fifty tons of salmon - Pug...

Copyrighted in 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

501-511 Fourteenth Street Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington,...

Significance: This steel frame building with limestone facades is a good example of small scale commercial architecture of the 1920's. Survey number: HABS DC-356 Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Constru... More

425 Seventh Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distr...

Survey number: HABS DC-605 Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction

St. John's Church, Ashburton House, Sixteenth & H Streets Northwest, W...

Significance: The original portion (1816) with the major addition (1820) is one of the older existing churches of the city. The central dome and transepts have been modified little from the original work of Be... More

514 E Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Survey number: HABS DC-236 Building/structure dates: ca. 18q2 Initial Construction

1924-1926 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washin...

Survey number: HABS DC-334-B Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lafayette Square, Jackson Place, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Survey number: HABS DC-810 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Realty Company, House No. 10, 1128 Sixteenth Street Northwest,...

Survey number: HABS DC-535 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1530 Thirtieth Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Colu...

Survey number: HABS DC-768 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025

Goszler-Meem-Brown House, 3412 O Street Northwest, Washington, Distric...

Significance: This is an early example of the small brick houses built for investment purposes in western Georgetown. It demonstrates the adaptability of these structures to twentieth-century patterns of livin... More

NIKE Missile Base SL-40, Basketball Court, Northwest of barracks, Heck...

Survey number: HAER IL-117-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Engine Company Number Six, Firehouse, 438 Massachusetts Avenue Northwe...

Survey number: HABS DC-88 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

427 & 429 Seventh Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington,...

Significance: Unfortunately the street elevation has been concealed by the relatively recent addition of a curtain wall, thereby impeding the stylistic identification of the building's facade. Information deriv... More

View of alley in Northwest Washington, behind North Capitol Street. Bl...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Backyard, Northwest Washington, D.C.

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Tobacco around farmhouse and in attic. Northwest of Asheville, North C...

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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Some of t...

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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Setting o...

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

Lambert Showroom, business at 3800 Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas. S...

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

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Water Tower, 3 mi...

Survey number: HAER CO-81-L Building/structure dates: 1960-1961 Initial Construction

Columbia Basin Project, Banks Lake Dry Falls Dam & Main Canal Headwork...

Significance: The development potential of the Grand Coulee, a gorge carved out by the Columbia River before that waterway shifted its course, was a deciding factor in the Bureau of Reclamation's choice for the... More

1521 Twenty-Ninth Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of C...

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624 E Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Humble Service Station, Southwest corner, Twenty-sixth Street & Pennsy...

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

Northwest Indian Ocean area. - Public domain map

Shipping list no.: 87-559-P. "801648 (545634) 12-90." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Second Floor, Northwest Gallery. Mural of Peace by Gari Melchers. Lib...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Overlooking the harbor of a leading city in the great Northwest, Tacom...

Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson (International Stereograph Co.). No. 21892. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Ph.; Harbors.

First Church (Congregational Unitarian), Northwest corner of Church & ...

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Ford's Theater, 511 Tenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Survey number: HABS DC-82 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000034

U.S. Soldiers Home, Quarters No. 2, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur St...

See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Quarters 2 one of the earliest buildings in the complex. Survey number: HABS DC-353-B Building... More

Seven Buildings, 1901-1913 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: Important as homes of Government Officials, ministers and private citizens, reported to have been erected soon after Washington became the capital city. Corner building (1901) house the State Dep... More

Hamilton Field, Hangar No. 9 & Air Corps Shop, Northwest end of Hangar...

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

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Masonic Temple, F & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: A post-Civil War fraternal and commercial building whose cornerstone-laying was honored by the presence of the President of the United States. This structure ranks among the most distinguished wo... More

Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Stre...

Significance: Built as West End Branch for Washington Loan & Trust Co., which was founded in 1889 and which built its main bank at 9th & F Sts., NW, in 1890. When Washingotn Loan & Trust was absorbed by Riggs ... More

812 F Street Northwest (Commercial Building), (previously recorded as ...

Significance: A post Civil War building illustrating the early commercial development of F Street. Survey number: HABS DC-213 Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates:... More

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More

Patterson House, 15 Dupont Circle Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This structure is a McKim, Mead and White example of neoclassicism in the decorative Italianate manner. The white marble and glazed terra-cotta building is heavily ornamented. The court, which b... More

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & O...

Significance: The Ordnance Warehouse is the only relatively unaltered building of this type of structure situated at Fort Drum. The building's original purpose was for the storage of weapons and munitions. The ... More

515 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...

Significance: Although much altered, 515 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875, is a good example of a post-Civil War Italianate brick rowhouse. This type of building was constructed throughout Washingto... More

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More

Selfridge Field, Building No. 1050, Northwest corner of Doolittle Aven...

Significance: Building No. 1050 is a blast proof and electromagnetic-shielded structure that served as the command node of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) regional launch and interceptor center p... More

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, 3 miles Northwest...

Significance: From the early 1940s to the end of the Cold War, the mill played a prominent role in national and international events related initially to the U.S. Army's WWII Manhattan Project, and later to the... More

Grace Denio Litchfield House, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Was...

Significance: Home of novelist/poet Grace D. Litchfield for 52 years. Survey number: HABS DC-321

General Montgomery Meigs House, 1239 Vermont Avenue Northwest, Washing...

Significance: Brick and stucco, first story rusticated, with coins and medallions, maudlin and dentilled cornice mansard roof; rectangular plan entrance portico and demi-octagonal bay window. Regency style. ... More

Joseph Beale House, 2301 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: The detached, stucco and limestone residence, in the 18th century Roman revival manner, is significant for its plan, spatial composition, and use of detail and material. The pie-shaped site faces... More

Joseph Beale House, 2301 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: The detached, stucco and limestone residence, in the 18th century Roman revival manner, is significant for its plan, spatial composition, and use of detail and material. The pie-shaped site faces... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Canal Warehouse, 3222 M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: A remnant of a Georgetown tobacco warehouse, once a flourishing trade. The retaining wall on the south side is of unique appearance, with rustic stonework. Survey number: HABS DC-144 Building... More

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More

Larz Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: Originally a private residence commissioned for lavish entertaining, this limestone, detached structure is one of the largest and costliest homes in the city. The dissimilar facades of the north e... More

Mount Vernon Apartments, 922-924 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, D...

Significance: This building represents an unusual transitional composition blending the Romanesque Revival Style with the emerging commercial style. Survey number: HABS DC-385 Building/structure dates: 1890... More

First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Twenty-Seventh Street Northwest, W...

Significance: This Church is the first Church of the Baptist denomination in Georgetown. It was founded in 1862 by former slave. Survey number: HABS DC-241 Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Paint Shop, Northwest corner of Davis Ave...

Significance: Building 816 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Power House, Northwest Corner of East Har...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AR Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: This detached residence is a good example of Louis XV exterior detailing. As reputedly stipulated by the Townsends, he present building incorporates parts of an earlier home (apparently only a po... More

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

Grafton Tyler Double House, 1314 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This double mansarded residence is an example of a particularly formal treatment of a mid-Victorian dwelling. It is conceived sculpturally with the heavy hood molds, cornice and mansard carried a... More

Oak Hill Cemetery, Gatehouse, 3001 R Street Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Significance: This handsome brick Victorian building forms an impressive entry to the spacious wooded grounds of Oak Hill Cemetery. Survey number: HABS DC-249 Building/structure dates: 1850-1853 Initial Cons... More

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Laboratory, 3 mil...

Significance: The VCA Naturita Mill Office Building was constructed in 1960-61 as part of an effort to reconstruct the facility as an experimental uranium and vanadium ore concentrating facility. Between 1958 (... More

Tudor Place Tulip Poplar, 1644 31st Street, Northwest, Tudor Place, So...

See also HABS DC-97 for related documentation. Significance: The Tudor Place Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is significant due to its association with the Peter family and their development of the Tudor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Watertower, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street...

See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Survey number: HABS DC-353-O National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002176

322 Eighth Street Northwest (Commercial Building), `, Washington, Dist...

Significance: The structure has its original store front and upper level in Federal Revival elements. The building's massing and materials contribute to an overall image of stability and balance making it a vi... More

322 Eighth Street Northwest (Commercial Building), `, Washington, Dist...

Significance: The structure has its original store front and upper level in Federal Revival elements. The building's massing and materials contribute to an overall image of stability and balance making it a vi... More

Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Significance: Built in the early 1870's by the Reverend John Henry Grogan, an itinerant Methodist minister, this house was of mortise and tenon construction. Known as the Grogan Home Place and owned by the Grog... More

History of the discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 : wi...

History of the discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 : wi...

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History of the discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 : wi...

History of the discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 : wi...

Riggs-Riley House, 3038 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District of C...

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Hillyer Place, Between Q & R & Twentieth & Twenty-first Streets Northw...

Significance: Relatively undisturbed block of late 19th century rowhouses, presenting a well-maintained period streetscape. #2030 was the home of Washington architect Joseph Hornblower. Street named for Curti... More