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[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi under...

Drawings are panels one and two of the "Machinery scroll' depicting Perry's expedition to Japan, 1853. Watercolor by a contemporary Japanese artist.

Lighthouse at Montauk Pt.; fishing trawler in foreground

Illus. in: Long Island of Today (1884). Reference copy may be in LOT 4385EO. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fishing; Lighthouses; Ads. Resorts; Hotels; NY Lo... More

Picturesque floating houses Hong Kong - stereocsopic card

D17528 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

For Ft. Fisher direct. The Expedition leaving the Chesapeake

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, December 31, 1864. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.534) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

Fort Fisher Expedition in Hampton Roads, Virginia

No. 836. Alternate title, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Photogra... More

The Constitution and Guerriere / drawn by G. White ; engd by J.C. McRa...

Print shows the Constitution, in the background, firing on the wreckage of the HMS Guerriere in the aftermath of the battle between the two ships.

The Bay of Annapolis: Nova Scotia

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0494

Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.

The May Flower, 1620 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Foggy weather off the grand banks

U30101 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weber.

Kestrel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the St. Lawrence River at Riviere du Loup

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hudson - Fulton Naval Parade, Panoramic Photograph

J133306 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; October 14, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. No. 1.

Culebra Cut, looking north between the two highest hills, Panama Canal

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified young soldier in Union forage cap with bayoneted musket ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The devils thumb, ships boring and warping in the pack / Lithod. by Ch...

Print shows two ships, probably the Enterprise and the Investigator, ice bound in Baffin Bay off Devil's Point in the Arctic; the crews work to break up the ice and tow the ships to open water. Caption continu... More

City Point, Virginia. View of transports

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Fisher Expedition in Hampton Roads, Virginia

Karavan s khli︠e︡bom, Russian Empire

Barges loaded with grain(?). Public domain photograph of ship docs, shipyard, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loss of the Central America wood engraving, Library of Congress

Three illustrations: side view of the ship the last time she left the port of New York; passengers on raft; and scene of the catastrophe after the sinking of the ship.

Columbian Naval Review - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Massachusetts, boat drill

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portland, Me. harbor, gelatin silver print

J137105 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; January 13, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

A l'oeuvre! Société Marseillaise de Crédit. Souscrivez a l'Emprunt Fra...

A French harbor scene with ships and men working on the docks. Translation of title: To work! Sociétée Marseillaise de Crédit. Subscribe to the French loan. Signed: Auguste Leroux. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 19... More

Miami, Florida, Dec. 15th, 1925, Panoramic Photograph

J280456 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Verne O. Williams; December 28, 1925; DLC/PP-1925:46884. Copyright claimant's address: 2011 N. Miami Ave.

[Beykoz] / Abdullah Frères. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 39. No. 409. In album: Views of the Bosporus and Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Cathedral and Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseilles, France]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Narrows, New York Bay. New York City sterescopic card, 19th centur...

71577 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted 1896 by Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N. J., U.S.A. No. 280.

NAVY, U.S. BATTLESHIPS IN STORM AT SEA

A black and white photo of a ship in the ocean, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. ... More

Shipping and South Street, New York, U.S.A. Berqus y le Calle South, N...

Stereograph showing several sailing ships docked and horse-drawn wagons carrying cargo removed from ships. 48257xp2s U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1892 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwoo... More

The U. States steamers, Scorpion, Spitfire, Vixen and Scourge; with 40...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony & Major.

View of the James River, at City Point, Virginia

Photograph shows a view of the James River from General Grant's headquarters at City Point, in July, 1864. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Photographer, date and additional information from ... More

Breaking out through the ice - the sealing fleet leaving St. Johns, Ne...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 28, 1884 April 5, p. 221. DCRM(G) example 1E3 - statement of responsibility, with two or more names

Lake front, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois in 1865 / taken from th...

Topographic drawing shows skyline across Lake Michigan. 34516 U.S. Copyright Office "J.W.O'B 1865" inscribed lower left of image. Not clear if drawn in 1865 or 1892, when copyrighted.

Harbor at Hamburg, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier

A building next to which is a pile of baskets and a holding pen with horses at the landing place on the cattle pier with ship at dock in Balaklava harbor, also view of the landscape of the hills in the background.

Fleet of transports just before the start, Tampa Bay

Drawing shows a fleet of steamships for troop transport in Tampa Bay prior to departure, during the Spanish-American war. Illustration for McClure's magazine; not published. No accession number. Forms part of:... More

Buffalo, from Lake Erie - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bennett.

A squall off Cape Horn - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

A three-masted ship, with bow to left, on high waves in a storm. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no.6080. Exhibit loan 4093-L.

Arresting the Steamship Northern Light

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 4 (1856 Jan. 5), p. 57. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860. C... More

Shamrock I and Columbia, becalmed in fog

"34" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05545. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Tug receiving mail and pilots for New York

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The combat between the Alabama and the Kearsage, off Cherbourg on the ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hoen & Co. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Ship-building at East Boston - Public domain engraving

Wood engraving by V. Ace. Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, May 19, 1855. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Pocohontus [sic] capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Rough sketch of two ships under sail. Title inscribed below image. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.458) Reference Print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms pa... More

[Return of the whaler] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Eldred, L.D.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle with flags, shield, arrows, and laur...

Addressed to Mrs. Margaret Jacobs, Coldwater, Mercer Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

Views at Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, May, 1864

No. 1277. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Views at Belle Plain Landing, Va., May, 1864. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Prows of sailing ships extending over a wharf on which there are peop...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

NAVY, U.S. BATTLESHIPS IN STORM AT SEA

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

The May Flower, 1620 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Second days action at Hatteras inlet

Broadside views of ships bombarding Fort Hatteras. Signed lower right: Alf.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: No top gallant masts up; Susquehannah; Cumberland; [Adnatie]; Minnesota; Wa... More

Mal lui veut mal lui tourne dit le Bon Homme Richard - sujet mémorable...

Cartoon shows a man with feathered cap labeled "Ameriquain" (representing America) cutting the horns off a cow labeled "Commerce d'Angleterre" (representing British commerce) which is being milked by a Dutchman... More

[Morris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Fleet offshore]

A black and white photo of ships in the ocean. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

[A Dutch fisherman, Marken Island, Holland]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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.

Savannah River from steamboat wharf

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Water front, San Francisco. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Pier in foreground, with sailing ships and boats. Photograph copyrighted by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 011652. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains un... More

On LAFAYETTE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.

For Ft. Fisher direct. The Expedition leaving the Chesapeake

Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below image: Currituck Capt. W.F. Shunkerd[?]; Sethlow[?] tugboat. Inscribed in blue ink upper left: O.K., [with initials?]; and in pencil: 12. [Lumley?-on mat] Fomerly at... More

The light-house at Cape Chersonese - looking south / W. Simpson del. ;...

Print shows a ship run aground before the lighthouse on Cape Chersonese, with men in rowboats attempting to pull the ship free. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most graci... More

View on James River near Jones' Landing

No. B1171. 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 ... More

The United States gun-boat "Wyandotte" firing a salute on Washington's...

Shown are the gun-boat "Wyandotte," and in the background left to right Fort Barrancas, Barrancas barracks, and United States Marine Hospital. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 6, p. 212.

"The river swarming with craft", engraving, Library of Congress

Boats in the East River, New York City. Illus. in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. [43], no. 256 (1871 September), p. 482.

Shipping along South Street, N.Y.. New York (state) 19th Century Stere...

Stereograph showing ships and horse-drawn wagons. 66346Bp2s-2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1896 by Alfred. S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.A. No. 639.

Fredericksburgh [sic] and Richmond RR Bridge over N. Anna, in flames

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 18, 1864, p. 396. Inscribed upper left, with image of trestle: Tressle [sic] Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2... More

The landing, San Juan, Porto Rico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pontoon landing hurriedly built for landing horses, Chemulpo

H43603 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Collier's Weekly, Mar. 22, 1904. Stamped on verso: R.L. Dunn.

Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

8481 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 1. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union sack coat and forage cap in front paint...

Case: Rinhart, no. 67 variant. 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 o... More

North from West Point - Public domain image of a steam boat

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vigilant and Valkyne - Print, Library of Congress collection

Y51613 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hurd, L.F.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Engagement between the Wasp and Frolic (a running fight)

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"John Ena" / C.R. Patterson.. Public domain reproduction.

Reproduction of painting showing ship "John Ena" at sea. G43865 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting submitted for copyright by C.R. Patterson. Copyright deposit print.

Dusk shot of barges traversing a short canal that connects the Sabine ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

U.S. Naval review at Hampton-Roads Virginia

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Jones, Jos. L.

[Unidentified young soldier in Union forage cap with bayoneted musket ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified soldier in Union sack coat and forage cap in front paint...

Harbor at Hamburg, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Boats along the Nile, Egypt - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Launching the Battleship "Kearsarge," Newport News, Virginia

Copyright 1898 by R.Y. Young. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tug receiving mail and pilots for New York

"21" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040320. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hauling in the sheet. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1859 by E. Anthony, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. Anthony's Instantaneous Views. New... More

[Maine memorial]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Savannah River from steamship wharf, Savannah, Ga

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04875. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Schooners at "T" wharf, Boston, Massachusetts

Photo shows the steamer Calvin Austin of the Eastern Steamship Co. fleet, launched 1903 and scrapped 1934. (Source: Charles Seavey, 2015) Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018779. Gift; State Historical Society of Col... More

[Unidentified young soldier in Union forage cap with bayoneted musket ...

Public domain photograph of rug, textile, pattern design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Warships in Hampton Roads, where battle of 1862 changed the world's mi...

Loading cotton steamers on the levee, New Orleans, La

Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The May Flower, 1620 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title on jacket: The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor. Photograph of a painting signed "W.F. Halsall." Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 14152. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

America Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04916. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Copenhagen from the Exchange Tower, Denmark

Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Lucia in the West Indies taken possession of by Admiral Barrington...

Print shows six ships in line flying the French flag, however, appears to be disembarking British troops who are about to take possession of the island after the French have withdrawn. At the bottom, shows an o... More

Man on horseback talking with a man carrying an oystering shovel on th...

Signed in pencil on lower left. Cochran, 119 (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).

IMPERATOR's arrival, 61913, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows the S.S. Imperator, an ocean liner of the Hamburg America Line in New York City. The Imperator arrived in New York City on June 19, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, Ju... More