Escape of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee, over the Pot...
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.294) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah R...
Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first ind... More
The Richmond Times, [newspaper]. April 21st, 1865.
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Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
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Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Bollman Bridge, Spanning Potomac River at H...
Significance: Wendel Bollman's "suspension truss" patented in 1852 was the first iron bridge widely utilized by a railroad. Employing cast iron tension members, it was constructed over virtually every Baltimor... More
Discovering the bodies of the slain in the Potomac river
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Rough sketch of troops moving through mountain pass on verso. Battle of Balls Bluff (Va.) fought 21 October, 1861. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More
Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...
Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Ft. Washington, Potomac. Warship photograph collection
Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: two story. Formerly Waud no. C-10. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.937) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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Marshall Hall, State Route 227 at Potomac River, Bryans Road, Charles ...
Significance: Marshall Hall was built ca. 1725 by Thomas Marshall on property that had, in part, been acquired by his grandfather in 1650. The western portion of the house constituted the original part, and wa... More
On the Potomac - Public domain scan / drawing
Sketch shows the Potomac River in Virginia looking across water. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 drawings in portfolios with binder's t... More
Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). Great Falls, Potomac Rive...
Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Great Falls, Potomac River, near Washington D.C. File print in LOT 4161-H. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, P... More
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Saltpeter rocks, "trough of the Potomac"
"Jackson, Denver, Col.", "Detroit Photographic Co." and "01802" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01802. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Old mill on the Potomac River, Maryland
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Down the Potomac from Mt. Vernon
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And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers statione...
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Operator of ferry which crosses the Potomac River into Maryland, near ...
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Lyndon Johnson marker in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on t...
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
Woodlawn Plantation overlooking the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virgini...
Built in 1805, this grand house was a gift from George Washington to his nephew, Major Lawrence Lewis and his wife Eleanor "Nelly" Custis a granddaughter of Martha Washington. Digital image produced by Carol M.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - [Potomac River,] Washington, D.C.
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
Dam No. 4 Hydroelectric Plant, Potomac River, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co...
Significance: Each plant epitomized the predominant low head hydroelectric technology in use at the time of its construction, Dam 4 uses tandem, multiple-runner, horizontal shaft turbines connected by rope driv... More
Dam No. 4 Hydroelectric Plant, Potomac River, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co...
Significance: Each plant epitomized the predominant low head hydroelectric technology in use at the time of its construction, Dam 4 uses tandem, multiple-runner, horizontal shaft turbines connected by rope driv... More
Dam No. 4 Hydroelectric Plant, Potomac River, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co...
Significance: Each plant epitomized the predominant low head hydroelectric technology in use at the time of its construction, Dam 4 uses tandem, multiple-runner, horizontal shaft turbines connected by rope driv... More
General Sickles and Staff in a reconnoitering expedition along the ban...
Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.544) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Reference print available in Ray, Pla... More
Potomac Aqueduct, Spanning Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
Significance: The Potomac Aqueduct was an important component in the integrated canal system serving the Potomac River watershed. Built during a major expansion in America's long distance transportation system... More
Potomac Aqueduct, Spanning Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
Significance: The Potomac Aqueduct was an important component in the integrated canal system serving the Potomac River watershed. Built during a major expansion in America's long distance transportation system... More
Alexandria, Virginia from the Maryland side of the Potomac
These subjects identified by arrow indicators and following inscriptions: Ferry boat; Greens Hotel where the Union Flag was taken down; Marshall House Secession Flag flying; Mills; Steamship Pawnee. Gift, J.P. ... More
Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah R...
Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first ind... More
Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah R...
Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first ind... More
Waterpower on Virginius Island, Shenandoah River near Potomac River, H...
Significance: Virginius Island is historically significant because it is the site of a 19th century water powered industrial village. The study of the site offers much information on the evolution of American ... More
Cockpit point - Public domain scan / drawing
Two shoreline landscapes. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed below image: orange bluff light sand colors towards base. Formerly Waud no. B-94. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.858) Forms part of: M... More
Great Falls of the Potomac - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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View on the Potomac--Near Harper's Ferry / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier ...
Two men on horseback with Potomac River and hills in the background. No. 5366. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6966.
Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
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Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...
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The Potomac River above Washington
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Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...
Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More
Pontoon Bridge over the Potomac. Maryland heights in the distance and ...
Signed lower right: A.R. Wau[d]. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image; Pines and dark [?ucks] J.R. lgt. Dr Cry; G. Earth. Gy pines dark. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.708) Reference pri... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...
See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More
[A group of officials at Great Falls, on the Potomac River, near Washi...
Stereograph showing group of seven men seated on a rock. The five men in front are identified on verso as: 1) A. Harper Caldwell, Chief Tel. Operator, Army Headquarters; 2) Albert Linde, Pamunkey Indian Scout ... More
Potomac Power Plant, On West Virginia Shore of Potomac River, about 1 ...
Significance: The Potomac Power Plant was an innovative small hydroelectric facility that operated from 1899 to 1991, originally as part of a wood pulp mill (built 1888), and solely as a power house after a fir... More
Potomac Power Plant, On West Virginia Shore of Potomac River, about 1 ...
Significance: The Potomac Power Plant was an innovative small hydroelectric facility that operated from 1899 to 1991, originally as part of a wood pulp mill (built 1888), and solely as a power house after a fir... More
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Marshall Hall, State Route 227 at Potomac River, Bryans Road, Charles ...
Significance: Marshall Hall was built ca. 1725 by Thomas Marshall on property that had, in part, been acquired by his grandfather in 1650. The western portion of the house constituted the original part, and wa... More
New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and George...
Photograph showing construction on a trestle railroad bridge across the Potomac River. Caption continues: S. Seymour, chief engineer, C.B. Morse, constructing engineer, S.S. Post & Co., contractors.
[Military construction in northern Virginia: men sitting in blanket bo...
No. 73 (handwritten) and 2573 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More
[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...
No. 78 (handwritten) and 2579 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More
[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...
No. 77a (handwritten) and 2577 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Libra... More
Transports at Alexandria removing troops
Signed lower right: Alf. R Waud. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed in pencil above image: Washington and the Capitol in the distance 5 miles away; Maryland shore; Fort; Steamer Vanderbilt, Steamer John Bro... More
Bridge across Eastern branch of Potomac River, Washington, D.C., April...
Photograph shows Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. (Source: similar image with caption "Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River," Smithsonian Institution, "America on the Move" o... More
Long Bridge across Potomac River, 1865
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Rock and river, south branch of the Potomac
Locale based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "223" and "Jackson Phot." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014127. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Chesapeake and Ohio canal - Up the Potomac, Williamsport
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Chesapeake and Ohio canal - Sunset on the Potomac, near Washington
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From the hills of Bolivar, athwart the Potomac to Maryland, the distan...
Postcard showing a panoramic view from Bolivar, West Virginia. Includes the Potomac River, hills and distant views of Maryland and Virginia. F65385 U.S. Copyright Office. Includes a vignette of a civil war s... More
Washington, D.C. views. View of Washington, D.C., Potomac River and Ro...
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[Aerial view of Potomac River with snow, Washington, D.C.]
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The wreck of the [Dellavilaud?] plane that crashed in the Potomac rive...
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