Interior view of Castle Pickney, Charleston Harbor, S.C. Showing the s...
Stereograph showing stacks of ammunition near the stairs and the blocked off entrance to the fort. No. 3134. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & C... More
Life boat practice, West End, New Orleans
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Southern Yacht Club in far right background. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05766. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[The dunes from the Oberland, Helgoland, Germany]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "8281". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.
[Harbor, II., Ramsgate, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10238". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
Chicago River elevators view, photochrome print postcard.
Copyright 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-12626) lists title as: [Chicago River elevators, Chicago, Ill.]. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53631". Forms part of: Photochrom Print ... More
Los Angeles Harbor, Aug. 9, 1919
J227800 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: Los Angeles, California. Handwritten on verso: "San Pedro Harbor, Aug. 9, 1919." No. 8750. Copyright deposit; Huddleston Photo Co.; October 1919; DLC/PP-1919:46067.
[Ocean liner in port] - Public domain scan / drawing
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions
A black and white photo of a boat in the water, possibly related to: B...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
The ruins of Civitavecchia harbor. This west coast port, serving Rome,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boston circa 1832 - Public domain engraving
Print shows a view of Boston Harbor as it may have looked in 1832 with sailboats and rowboats in the foreground, a windmill in the middle distance, and the city of Boston in the background. Reproduction of an ... More
[Sailboats on Spa Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Scene at the Fishmarket, a renovated mall near Baltimore, Maryland's I...
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 entertainment venue's name was later changed to Por... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Port of Houston, Texas
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
Ships cruise the harbor at the Mobile, Alabama port
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Harbor scene in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Pass Christian (pro...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Due to the number of fine late-19th-and early-20th-Century mansions built along the city beachfront that is now a scenic drive, Pass C... More
Two-Sail Bateau E. C. COLLIER, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Mills S...
Significance: This vessel represents one of the oldest and last boats in the Maryland oyster dredging fleet. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-32 Survey number: HAER MD-77 Buildin... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. I
Photographs taken during a trip by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson to the Cappadocia region of Turkey in October and November of 1935, on the request of the National Geographic Society. Whiting, a member of ... More
Wailoa Bridge, Spanning Wailoa River at Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, Hawai...
Significance: Wailoa Bridge and Kamehameha Avenue originally served as the main traffic artery connecting Wainaku Sugar Mill and Kuhio Wharf. Presently, it serves as a major transportation link between Hilo an... More
Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
The Mississippi River Fleet at Mound City, Illinois
No. 3132. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More
Summer scenes in New York Harbor
Artist: Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6343
[Port with ruins of the Christianborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark]
Title in the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905 misidentified the buildings as "Fredericksborg Castle with embankment. Print no. 6393. More... More
[Jersey, arrival of boats, St. Helier, Channel Islands]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10420". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
[Padstow Quay, Cornwall, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11134". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
[The Harbor (Free Port), Bremen, Germany]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "6682". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.
[Copenhagen, Helsingborg, Sweden] view, photochrome print postcard.
Photo shows a paddle steamer, possibly named Kopenhagen or København, in the Helsingborg harbor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title devised by Library staff based on information from the Flickr Common... More
PENNSYLVirginiaNIA, U.S.S. LAUNCHING, NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia
A black and white photo of a harbor, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General inf... More
Harbor of St. John's from Dry Dock, Newfoundland
J237938 U.S. Copyright Office No. 16320; 278. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Port Said, view across entrance of canal
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Port of Philadelphia - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress
Poster promoting Philadelphia, showing railroad freight cars at the Port of Philadelphia. Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Blocks by Domen... More
Harbor in Kennebunkport, Maine, home of the summer compound of the 41s...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More
The Harbor, Gulfport, Miss - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
"G 6699," "G 3700," G 3701," "G 6702," and "G 6701" on negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015500. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter WHITE PINE, U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Base...
See HAER DC-56, U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class for overview. Significance: WHITE PINE was originally constructed as a yard lighter YF 448 for the U.S. Navy YF 257 class. This class of vessel provide... More
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, East of Nave Drive, Vallejo, Solano County...
Significance: The Mare Island Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its significance under National Register criteria A, C, and D, in the areas of military history, indust... More
Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC
Significance: The Barbour Boat Works produced a variety of wooden water craft for recreational use from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Intermittently, the shipyard constructed larger vessels for military a... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New York/Connecticut...
Survey number: HAER CT-11 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
[View of Galata from Sirkeci port] / Abdullah Frères.
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 2. No. 372. In album: Structures and views of Istanbul, the Bosporus, and the Princes Islands, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Ab... More
[Ships in the Harbor, Hamburg, Germany]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "8796". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.
[The outer port, Trouville, France] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8035". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More
[Warships, Algiers, Algeria]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.
Title from the Detroit Photographic Co., catalogue F scenic, architectural, and marine views, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, c1899. Print no. "6213". Forms part of: Views of people and sites in ... More
"Beothic", George Grantham Bain Collection
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Opium trader, Hong Kong harbor, greatest opium port in the world, Chin...
Small boat in congested harbor, with large ships in background. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Spring Point Ledge Light, Portland, Me
Negative cracked twice, right side and taped to second sheet of glass. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "2924" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018927. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
City and harbor of Port Arthur, Texas birds eye view looking south to ...
Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 920 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651/1
[People gathered on quay, Genoa, Italy] [Ships in port, Genoa, Italy]
(Source: LC-USZC4-14941) On page: no. 1586 (top image) and no. 1587 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [160]. On page: "No legends". Negative series code written on page: C262. Copyri... More
Port of Philadelphia, Art Deco Poster
Poster promoting Philadelphia, showing railroad freight cars at the Port of Philadelphia. Date stamped on verso: Nov 6 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Blocks by Domen... More
[Tugboats and cargo ships on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China]
Photo shows a bird's-eye view of tugboats and cargo ships on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).
Carol M. Highsmith - Cape Cod marina, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
United Engineering Company Shipyard, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alamed...
includes field notes for 295-A through 295-R Significance: The United Engineering Company Shipyard, established in 1941 to build and repair ships for the U.S. Navy, is the last surviving of several large World ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Maintenance Ships-Spares Storage, Betwe...
Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor including Ford Island was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century ... More
Ellis Island, Main Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York Count...
Significance: Having served as the entrance to the United States at the nation's largest port for over seventy percent of immigrants entering this country from 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island is the most important i... More
[A port on the Rhine--docks of Mannheim] / A. Castaigne.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a harbor, sailing ship, boat, city building, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Storehouse for Defense Battalion Type, ...
Significance: The storehouse at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor were constructed in the 1940s as part of the pre-war and WWII expansion of the oldest Marine garrison in Hawaii. They are associated with the Ma... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Railway No. 2, Crane Wharf, Near...
Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed during WWII, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it is significant as one of the important components of the Navy... More
Marshall Point Light Station, At end of Marshall Point Road, south of ...
Survey number: HABS ME-205 Public domain photograph related to the history of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arrival Niagara, Buffalo Yacht Club, Sep. 2, 1913, Perry Centennial
J185505 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Fisher & Markel; September 13, 1913.
Wabash & Erie Canal, Lock No. 2, 8 miles east of Fort Wayne, adjacent ...
Significance: Lock No. 2 is an example of a wood lock, many of which once existed along the original line of the Wabash and Erie Canal. More fragile than those supported by dressed stone, locks which were cons... More
Sauk Creek Bridge, Spanning Sauk Creek in Port Washington Harbor, Port...
Significance: The Sauk Creek Bridge is Wisconsin's only known example of a metal, king-post truss bridge. Survey number: HAER WI-40 Building/structure dates: before 1925 Initial Construction
Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische...
Also shows Wales on some sheets. Issued as a series in separate portfolios; each portfolio consists of 2 or more sheets; and numbered 1 through 4 and 6 through 12. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot h... More
Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC
Significance: The Barbour Boat Works produced a variety of wooden water craft for recreational use from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Intermittently, the shipyard constructed larger vessels for military a... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...
Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More
Hong Kong--Sampans at a suburb - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Sampans in water. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
[Steamboat pavillion and Jurgensbij, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Ge...
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "6821". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.
[The harbor, Folkestone, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10326". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
[Inner harbor, Swinemunde, Pomerania, Germany (i.e., Świnoujście, Pola...
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905, where Pomerania is misspelled Pommeraina. Print no. "8383". Forms part of: Views of Germa... More
[Wherry leaving Wroxham, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Image shows a Norfolk wherry boat in Wroxham, Norfolk, England. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Com... More
[The harbor, Bordeaux, France] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6809". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More
N.Y.Y.C. fleet, Vineyard Haven, August 7, '92
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
A dead war monster--Russian battleship 'Peresviet' wrecked by Japanese...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...
Photographs the port of Genoa, Italy, and two boys standing next to propeller blades on the S.S. Conte Verde. On page: no. 1565 (top left image), no. 1566 (top right image), no. 1567 (bottom left image) and no... More
Egypt. Port Said. West. Sailing craft on Lake Manzeleh
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Collier leaving the port of Oswego, New York
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Loading docks, Port Authority, Mobile, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Aerial view of the marina and Harbour Town lighthouse in Hilton Head I...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Maintenance Ships-Spares Storage, Betwe...
Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor including Ford Island was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century ... More
Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...
Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More
Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...
Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Railway No. 2, Crane Wharf, Near...
Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed during WWII, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it is significant as one of the important components of the Navy... More
Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Graving Docks, Shipyard No...
Survey number: HAER CA-326-G Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hurricane Gate Structure 5, Herbert Hoover Dike on Lake Okeechobee, Be...
Significance: Construction of Hurricane Gate Structure 5 was authorized by the River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930. As such, it was part of the first major federal project in the central and southern Florida ... More