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Carte du Lac Champlain depuis le Fort Chambly jusqu'a celuyde St. Fréd...

Shows landowners along the shore of Lake Champlain. Pen and ink and colored ink. Similar to map created by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry in 1732. Oriented with north to the right. At top of title cartouche... More

A plan of English Harbour; with the King's yard and carreening wharfe,...

Scale ca. 1:3,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially and by shading and hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 127 Includes index and "A scale of f... More

An exact plan of the city, fortifications & harbour of Havana in the i...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure. May 1762, v. 30. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1814 Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Plan de la ville de Venise : reduit sur un plan en 20. feuilles publié...

Appears in Bellin's Petit atlas maritime. Includes index. "Pl. 7, tome IV. No. 109*." LC copy stamped on: 626888 N 41. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

E. Sugar Creek, Bradford Co. - Public domain old map

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum. Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, dimensions, and acreages. Title from label affixed to verso. From the William Bingham estate m... More

Mapa topográfico de la Isla de San Juan de Puerto Rico y la de bieque ...

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A plan of the island of Burlington : and a view of the city from the R...

Cadastral map showing buildings, lot lines, orchards, and gardens. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Includes index to points of interest and panoramic view at bottom of sheet. Available also through t... More

Plan de projet pour l'etablissement de la ville du Port Napoléon dans ...

Cadastral map. Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 394 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Vault

Battle of the Thames - A map of a small town in the middle of the day

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Athens / Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows extant and presumed antiquities (buildings, theaters, tombs, walls, etc.) of central Athens as in 1832. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.... More

Map of the township of West Hempfield, Lancaster County Penn'a : from ...

General-content township wall map showing rural buildings and householders' names; the Columbia borough inset shows building coverage and occupants' names. Hand colored to emphasize township and borough boundar... More

The section and plan of a blockhouse

Print shows a cross-section and the plan for the ground and upper floors of a blockhouse. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey. London : Printed fo... More

Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846

Illus. in: Walden; or, life in the woods, 1854. Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plan of Genl Q. A. Gillmore's position on Morris Island, Charleston S....

Shows the progression of earthworks constructed to allow Union forces to approach Fort Wagner. Gillmore's troops reached the ditch surrounding the fort on September 6. The Confederate forces abandoned the fort ... More

[Bird's eye view of San Francisco] - Public domain map

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 35 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 710/1

Bird's eye view of the city of Allentown, Pa. /

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC copy imperfect: Lacks part of indexes and lower right corner of map. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 728.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... More

Panoramic map of Towanda, Pennsylvania 1880.

LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 862.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes views of various buildings. AACR2

North Adams, Massachusetts. / Historic map, Library of Congress

Bird's-eye view. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to points of interest and col. ill. Vault Acquisitions control no. 65-83. PM3

[Biltmore Estate greenhouses, Asheville, North Carolina. Elevations an...

Original architectural drawing by the office of Richard Morris Hunt, showing proposed scheme for greenhouses in plan and in two versions of elevation. Hitchings & Co., Horticultural architects and builders, 23... More

Plot of Tippecanoe battleground, November 7th, 1811

Public domain scan of a plan of settlement buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Alterations to the Executive Mansion, for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Pen...

Floor plan of the main floor of the White House showing original floor plan with additions made in 1823, 1826, and 1829. Forms part of: Mrs. H.S. Owen Collection, 1891-1925 (Library of Congress).

Aero view of the Panama Canal, looking southwest, The world's greatest...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes distance tables. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Topographic map of Mesa Verde National Park : Montezuma County, Colora...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Surveyed in 1910-1911." Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC copy: Stamped on 508B for copy 1; 437B for copy 2 in lower left margin. Includes inset showing ... More

Third floor plan, New York Public Library (fig. 149)

Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated. / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iro... More

Aero-view of Farmingdale, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. 1925.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 561 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and... More

New deal for Old Dobbin. Rep. Percy L. Gassaway (cowboy and D. of Okla...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Alterations to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Was...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire recapping. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing m...

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

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a t...

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.

Captured Japanese submarine. A Japanese vest-pocket sub, captured from...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tire recapping. A service attendant points out a worn tire that may be...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Site plan]

Illustration in The Law School Record (University of Chicago), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 6. Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Lon... More

[Married Students Housing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Tw...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Bird's-eye perspective wit...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.16.

Tuttle residence, Rock Hall, Maryland. Roof plan

Architectural drawing showing roof plan of the Wylie Tuttle residence in Rock Hall, Maryland. Date from item. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126, PMR-1838, no. 3.

[Wisma Dharmala building, Jakarta, Indonesia. Sketch plan]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Caldwell's Illustrated historical combination atlas of Clarion County,...

Pagination irregular. Phillips 16776 Historical sketch of Clarion County, Pennsylvania: p. [7]-8, 12-19. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: p. 21-22, 2... More

Nicholas Jarrot Mansion, State Route 157, Cahokia, St. Clair County, I...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

829-831 Sixth Street (House), Redlands, San Bernardino County, CA

2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: 829/831 Sixth Street is located in the City of Redlands, San Bernadino County, California. It was originally addresses at 31 Times Street. It occupies the m... More

The house of governors. Plan to partition the United States into fifte...

Another ed. Reads Plan for partitioning, instead, Plan to partition.; Piece 2 is a variant of Piece 1.; Piece 3 is a duplicate of Piece 2.; No. 4 Do you feel at home in a laboratory?; No. 5. Everyone wants to h... More

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works,...

See also HAER PA-200-F for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Rated with an annual capacity of six hundred thous... More

Kerr Mill, Sloan Road (State Route 1768), Mill Bridge, Rowan County, N...

Significance: This substantial brick and stone structure is situated in a wide creek valley surrounded by rolling hills in the rich farming area of western Rowan County. Bearing the name of Dr. Samuel Kerr, it ... More

Greenbelt, Maryland. A model community planned by the Suburban Resettl...

Photo shows elevation and floor plan for "Typical group house, 3 family."

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops are significant because they represent the major site component of one of the earliest attempts in the United States to plan and develop a who... More

Fort Gorges, Hog Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Portland, Cumberland C...

Significance: It is a very prominent and intriguing part of the Casco Bay view from Portland's Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade, and so viewed by thousands every year. Architecturally it is an unchanged ex... More

Hayes Manor, East Water Street vicinity, Edenton, Chowan County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10, FN-14 Survey number: HABS NC-3 Building/structure dates: 1790- 1801 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001341

Fairmount Park, Along Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Significance: Officially founded in 1855 but with roots extending back to 1812, Fairmount Park represents one of the earliest efforts in the American park movement. While originally intended to protect Philadel... More

Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, ...

Significance: The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School located at 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, exemplified International Style educational buildings in the state of Louisiana. Built between 1953 and 1955, th... More

McNamara House, 502 North Liberty Street, Victoria, Victoria County, T...

Significance: The McNamara House Museum is a 1-1/2 story frame building built in 1876 for William John McNamara, his wife Mary Ann Buckley McNamara and daughters Mary Ellen, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Catherine. ... More

Chʻŏnha chido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title from label on cover. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Disbound. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Printed text on verso of each sheet unrelate... More

Speer House, 319 Main Street, Belleville, Essex County, NJ

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C. Principal stor...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions drawing image.

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Pier No. 6, Erie Lackawanna R...

Significance: The remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Pier No. 6: Grain Trestle are significant because of the information they provide about grain and coal loading techniques of a major ra... More

Portulan de Charles-Quint donné à Philippe II, accompagné d'une notice...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Orthodox Congregational Church, Central & Church Streets, Manchester, ...

Significance: Copied from the Country Builder's Assistant, America's first architectural treatise, this classical form became the archetype of early American ecclesiastical architectural practices. Tall steepl... More

Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...

Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More

[Cocoon house (Healy guest house), Siesta Key, Florida. Site plan and ...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Details published in: Paul Rudolph: the Florida houses / Christopher Domin and Joseph King. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2002, p. 21.

Ormond Plantation, State Highway 1, Saint Rose, St. Charles Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS LA-18-13 Building/structure dates: ca. 1803 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1819 Subsequent Work

Caldwell's atlas of Madison Co., Ohio /

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5929 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of Ohio, map of the United States, brief history of Madison County, and ... More

Fourth fol. (reverse) after title page (map of Vaucluse)

Illus. in: Francesco Petrarca, Il Petrarca, Venice, Giolito, 1547. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: France V-; G&M Div.; Maps...; BI; RBD; Shelf.

Plano de Costa Ricae / - Public domain vintage map

Shows lower eastern coast of Nicaragua. Depths shown by soundings. The number 4 in the year 1746 annotated in brown ink over the original number 5 in black ink reflecting change from 1756 to 1746. Oriented with... More

Johann Baptist Homann - Verschiedene propspecte der vornemsten stadten...

Aerial views for 14 cities in Persia and Central Asia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His ...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 932 Available also through the Librar... More

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia.

Scale ca. 1:42,000. Hand colored. Shows names of landowners in rural areas. LC copy annotated, has "8.11.45.Vme." Includes "Elevation of the State House." Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:1,310,000. Facsimile. Ninth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Cadastral survey map of original land grants and resurveys along the P...

Shows tracts dated approx. 1675 to 1808. Also shows landowners' names and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal condemnations. Title devised by cataloger. Photostat copy of ms. map. Includes survey notes. At lower right: D... More

Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...

Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More

A map of the Hawaiian Islands. - Public domain old map

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Includes view of Lahainaluna. LC copy is only two panels of a larger map.

The harbor of Annapolis / nautical chart

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

Inscriptions on recto: Third story ; John Haviland Archt Philadelphia 1847 ; Gentlemen's stair ; Ladies stair. Building originally Fountain Inn, then Irving Hotel (1848), then The Kirkwood House (1854). Demolis... More

Plan of battle of Salem Church near Bank's Ford, Virginia : May 3rd & ...

As part of a series depicting the Chancellorsville Campgain, this map gives details of the area around Salem Church, where Union Gen. Sedgwick's forces, en route from Fredericksburg to reinforce Hooker near Cha... More

Bird's eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory 1870.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 928 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2

Architectural drawing for the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Fl...

Competition drawing showing library as plan. UNIT title devised. Library of Congress design competition proposal no. 11 (from Library of Congress Archives, Records of the Library of Congress, Buildings and Grou... More

Birds eye view of Aberdeen, Dak. - Public domain old map

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 885 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2: 100; ... More

Panoramic map of Gowanda, N.Y.. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Bird's-eye view. Imperfect: Darkened, color faded, stained at bottom. Accompanied by film negative photocopy of the original / Historical Graphic Arts Co. [1] sheet : plastic film ; 53 x 66 cm. -- Two positive ... More

[Base map of Kansas]. - Public domain vintage map

Shows names of counties, major cities and towns, and rivers. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.)... More

Isabella, site of first city in America, founded by Columbus

28546G U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3. Copyright by F.L. Vasquez.

[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...

Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:100 no. 80:5786

World's Fair, St Louis, 1904. - A painting of a view of a large city

"American Expositions and World Fairs Exhibit, January-March 1976." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Yellowstone National Park., Yellowstone National Park

Wall map. Includes spot heights. "Copyright 1904 by Henry Wellge, Milwaukee. Transferred to the Northern Pacific Railway Company." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Moun... More

Boise National Forest (site plan), Idaho City, Boise County, ID

Significance: A significant part of the varied history of the Boise National Forest is embodied in the administrative structures built since the Forest was proclaimed. Several of these buildings are more than ... More

Republicans start ball rolling for 1938. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Loo...

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Alterations to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Was...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Alterations to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Was...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington...

A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manuscript planning map for the Allied landing near Licata, Sicily, on...

Title provided by cataloger. Pencil and colored pencil on paper. All edges torn. Accompanied by documents concerning the life and service of Capt. Alfred J. Reid. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Tire recapping. Recapping a worn passenger car tire. Reclaimed camelba...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colonial land patents and grantees : Calfpasture Rivers, Augusta Count...

[Representative Glen Browder patting a pig, "Madonna," being used to p...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1993-391 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1993-391, frame 18. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio

Apr 1892. 7 Sheet(s). Ohio fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. Th... More

Heermann Store, 4308 West Loop 1604, Somerset, Bexar County, TX

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: It stands as a rare surviving example of early commercial buildings in rural South Texas. Throughout its early history, the building was part of a small... More

Joseph Cooper House, Pyne Point Park, Camden, Camden County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS NJ-70 Building/structure dates: ca. 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 17h1 Subsequent Work

Architectural drawing of a cathedral ("Baltimore Cathedral"), Baltimor...

Measured drawing showing cathedral as plan and elevation. UNIT title devised. Drawings not signed; attribution based on provenance and drawing style. Date span based on years during which Bulfinch was active in... More

David Nichols House, 229 Mulberry, Newark, Essex County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-178 Survey number: HABS NJ-242 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

Illinois Waterway, Brandon Road Lock and Dam , 1100 Brandon Road, Joli...

Public domain scan of a map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Report on general survey of British Somaliland 1944 (Colonial developm...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. The illustrative matter is folded in pocket. Prepared by the Survey dept. cf. Introd. Bibliography : p. 12. AACR2 : 651/2

[Military academy. Principal story, floor plan]

Inscriptions on recto: "Principal of a Military school" "Haha Ditch" "Dining Hall" "Lecture Room" "BHLatrobe architect Jany 26 1800" "No II." Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benja... More

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works,...

See also HAER PA-200-F for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Rated with an annual capacity of six hundred thous... More