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THE PRESIDENT AND WIFE OF AIDE ENJOY OPEN AIR CONCERT ON POTOMAC. WASH...

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

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Breakfast...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation window display: Bet...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Christmas 1940, Potomac Electric ...

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Air raid equipments and personnel...

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

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Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Fire sprays and fire fightin...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Fire sprays and fire fightin...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Window of Potomac Electric Power ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. 10th & E lobby, after remodeling ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Exterior of 10th & E building I

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. C&P building at 1306 Mt. Ver...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Mr. LeVelle's home...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Exterior of Benning plant I

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Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. Windsor Shop...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Kitchen VI

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Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. Windsor Shop...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. Eastern Buil...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Damaged shaft I

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[Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River during Ea...

Contact sheet folder caption: ""Earth Week", Girl Scouts cleaning up the Potomac River. TOH, 4/22/70." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: U... More

The Japanese Lantern is a stone statue in West Potomac Park, Washingto...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Located next to the Tidal Basin, among the cherry trees... More

Potomac River from Prospect Peak, West Virginia

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

Blue Bridge over the Potomac River at Cumberland, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view with a focus on plants and other buildings along the Potom...

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

Academy Hall at Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The catamount, or mountain lion, is the school's athletic mascot. West Virginia's only residential junior college, it is located in Ke... More

Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a two-year junior c...

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View on the Potomac, Virginia - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Jeakes, J. Purchase; Peter Lamb; 1983; (DLC/PP-1984:004). Duplicate in PR09

[Brandy Station, Virginia Scouts and guides of the Army of the Potomac...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. Shows a large group of guides and African American man wearing an apron standing with them.

District of Columbia War Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington, Dist...

Significance: The District of Columbia War Memorial was built to commemorate the citizens of the District of Columbia who served in World War I. Authorized by an Act of Congress in 1924, funds to construct the... 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

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

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Godey Lime Kilns (Ruins), Junction of Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Wa...

Significance: The Godey Lime Kilns are an example of a local mid-19th Century industry. The kilns are being preserved as the oldest surviving relics of this important Georgetown business. Unprocessed Field n... More

Godey Lime Kilns (Ruins), Junction of Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Wa...

Significance: The Godey Lime Kilns are an example of a local mid-19th Century industry. The kilns are being preserved as the oldest surviving relics of this important Georgetown business. Unprocessed Field n... More

Fort Washington, Fort Washington Light, Northeast side of Potomac Rive...

Significance: A light and fog signal were located at Fort Washington to guide ships along the Potomac River, an important shipping and transportation route from the Chesapeake Bay to the cities of Alexandria an... More

[Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms with cigars in mouths in ...

Case: Berg, no. 7-21 Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress... More

[Why the Army of the Potomac doesn't move]

Four sketches, titles inscribed below images: The Relief, Going to Camp, Difficulties of Teaming, King Mud in camp. Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title devised from Harpers caption. Published in: Harper's W... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... 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

[Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the ri...

Soldiers resting, and firing guns on the banks of the Potomac. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. Inscribed upper left: 1st [illegible inscription] Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Fort Hill, C, C, & I, Co, wharf - Ches. & O; Canal, Potomac river, dam...

Penned on front of mount: 400. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (Cumberland, MD.), date, number (168), negative (tannin), and notation ... More

Gerard B. Wager Building, Shenandoah & Potomac Streets, Harpers Ferry,...

Significance: The building was erected in the 1830's and is important as a landmark in the immediate vicinity of the capture of John Brown in 1859. In present day Harpers Ferry, the building lends considerably... More

Calvert Street Bridge, Spanning Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Washingt...

Significance: This bridge represents the response of a prominent team of designers to the demand of the Commission of Fine Art that the new structures harmonize with both the landscape and the nearby Connecticu... More

Girl Scout Teahouse, East Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The Girl Scout Teahouse at Hains Point is significant in that it represents an early park pavilion structure designed to provide food service to visitors who motored to Hains Point by automobile. ... More

Girl Scout Teahouse, East Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The Girl Scout Teahouse at Hains Point is significant in that it represents an early park pavilion structure designed to provide food service to visitors who motored to Hains Point by automobile. ... More

Girl Scout Teahouse, East Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The Girl Scout Teahouse at Hains Point is significant in that it represents an early park pavilion structure designed to provide food service to visitors who motored to Hains Point by automobile. ... More

White Hall, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: This building was erected in 1839 by William and Samuel B. Anderson and Dr. George B. Stephenson on land which was originally part of the Wager Six Acre Reservation. The Wagers were descendants of... More

White Hall, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: This building was erected in 1839 by William and Samuel B. Anderson and Dr. George B. Stephenson on land which was originally part of the Wager Six Acre Reservation. The Wagers were descendants of... More

White Hall, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: This building was erected in 1839 by William and Samuel B. Anderson and Dr. George B. Stephenson on land which was originally part of the Wager Six Acre Reservation. The Wagers were descendants of... 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

Joseph Careleton House, 1052-54 Potomac Street Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: A very early 19th century building, in the heart of the old commercial area of Georgetown, that probably always was used for business (ground floor) as well as residence (above). Little altered. ... More

Panoramic views of encampment of Army of Potomac at Cumberland Landing...

Top image in two sections; bottom image in three sections. Civil War Photograph Collection.

Daniel Cole, A Federal scout at Secret Service Department Headquarters...

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[Brandy Station, Virginia Colonel George H. Sharpe, John G. Babcock, u...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

Brandy Station, Virginia. Army of the Potomac. Western half of the cam...

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Meeting of the Shenandoah and Potomac at Harpers Ferry / negative by J...

Photograph shows what was left of the armory at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner... More

Arlington, Virginia. Georgetown aqueduct from Virginia side of Potomac...

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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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Dam No. 5 Hydroelectric Plant, On Potomac River, Hedgesville, Berkeley...

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Military railroad bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg R...

No. 12 (handwritten) and 2513 (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

The Army of the Potomac on the march from the Chicahominy [sic] to the...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.240) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Sketch at the grand review of the Army of the Potomac April 9th

President Lincoln and Union generals on horseback--image of General Hooker has been removed. Signed lower left: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 2, 1863, p. 277, as: ... More

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

M Street Bridge, Spanning Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Washington, Di...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Genl. Haupts bridge over Potomac Creek--Virginia, destroyed by the Reb...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud [signature crossed out in ink]. Title inscribed in pencil and black ink below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 29, 1863, p. 557. Destroyed after the evacuation of Falmo... 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

Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move. Sketched near...

Exhibit caption: Alfred R. Waud depicts Union forces coping with the challenge of winter weather in 1863 as they advanced toward the Rappahannock River. He skillfully delineates formations of soldiers, wagons, ... More

City Point, Virginia. Cattle for the Army of the Potomac

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The Army of the Potomac crossing Broad Run. Retreat from Culpepper [si...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.206) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Roeder Store, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2 Survey number: HABS WV-223 Building/structure dates: 1856 Initial Construction