settlement

Ierusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit, accurate nota...

Relief shown pictorially. German. Titles in Latin and German. Shows Jerusalem during the time of Christ. Includes descriptive text in German. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan du siege de Brimston Hill. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:14,440. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Hand colored. Accompanied by photocopy of map. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1994 Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library o... More

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...

Scale ca. 1:900,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. "This is a copy of the first map engraved in New England. Taken from one in Hubbard's Narrative of the t... More

[Map showing Trinidad Island and adjacent coast of Venezuela].

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Black, red, and yellow inks. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 808 Available also through the... More

An exact draught of the island of New Providence one of the Bahama Isl...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

Luxembourg, une fortresse tres-celebre de la duché de cette nom dans P...

Relief shown by hachures. Title and index in French and German; text in German. Appears in Seutter's Grosser Atlas worinnen enthalten alle die jenige geographisches Universal-Special- und Particular-Mappen, mit... More

[Plan of New Ebenezer, Ga., 1742, which was settled in 1736 by the per...

Illus. in: S. Urlsperger, ...Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie Saltzburgischer Emigranted in America..., 1741-52, vol. 3. Reference copy may be in LOT 4388 D. This record contains unveri... More

Plan du terrain sur le cap appartenant à la paroise de cette uille 175...

Scale ca. 1:550. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. The original manuscript plot of the top of the cape at Quebec, on which the Chateau St. Louis stood, where the Chateau Frontenac now stands, as well as t... More

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. Includes numerous notes, especially concerning inland water communications and natural resources, 3 distan... More

Plan of the inlet, strait, & town of St. Augustine.

Scale ca. 1:9,100. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. "No. 9." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1636 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 907 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2

Plan de Monaco. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:6,000. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Tome IV, no. 72." Covers commune of Monaco. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through the ... More

A new chart of New Holland on which are delineated New South Wale, and...

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

[St. Eustatius, Leeward Islands]. - Public domain map

Shows aerial view of the port of Sint Eustatius in the northern Leeward Islands of the West Indies including buildings, ships, and fortifications. Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye-view. Pen-and-ink and penc... More

A new plan of Boston Harbour from an actual survey.

Scale ca. 1:110,000. "N.B. Charlestown burnt June 17th, 1775 by the regulars." Index for points of interest. Cited in David McNeely Stauffer's American engravers upon copper and steel as appearing in the Pennsy... More

A plan of that part of the Rosalij Estate call'd New-Found-Land, the p...

Scale ca. 1:3,960. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: J. Whatman: C. [and a fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield, over the letters GR] Shows wood. Annotated ove... More

A plan of the east part of Long Island Sound from remarks made on boar...

Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated: By Lieutt. Knatchbull, Recd. 31 Jany. 1778. Includes directions for navigatio... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - avenue de sphinx - vue générale prise du point G / F...

Ruins along the avenue of Sphinxes as seen from "point G" showing palms and temple ruins in the distance (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude... More

Chinese settlement in the suburbs of San Francisco, California / ... F...

Humble dwellings along bay. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 June 21, p. 21.

Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River,

Scale ca. 1:140,000. Alternate title: From Natchez to New Orleans. Hand colored. Cadastral map showing landowners. LC copy 2 imperfect: Pieces missing primarily along outside margin and discolored. Shows planta... More

One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 9th ed.

Scale ca. 1:880,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 632.3 General map centered on Richmond, Virginia. Map is printed in blue with title and border in red. "Ninth edition 3000 of Magnus' all around map." "Dedicate... More

Plan of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Va. Showing position of both ar...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Decr. 13, 1862.

Map shows the region surrounding Fredericksburg, Va., including Marie's Heights outside of the city and Falmouth across the Rappahannock River. Due to Burnside's slow maneuvering of the Union forces, Lee was a... More

[Map of Nelson Co. and part of the counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Aug...

"Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map... More

[Map of the environs of Olley Creek near Marietta, Georgia, July? 1864...

Shows troop positions, fortifications, and names of some residents. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S96, 198 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More

Map of Winona County, Minnesota. 1867.

Phillips, 2046 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 414.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

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

Monson, Massachusetts. 1879. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 310.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to poin... More

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Scale 1:19,320; 230 sazh. v angl. di︠u︡ĭmi︠e︡. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In Russian. Identifies wards, trolley lines, police stations, municipal, military and ot... More

East Pepperell, Massachusetts. 1886., engraving, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 287 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100; 710/1

Panoramic map of Warwick, N.Y. 1887.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 651 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2

The Wilderness. [May 5-7, 1864] - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:69,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 666 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 34, June 1887. p.279. "Union works are marked U" and "Confederate works are marked C." Shows roads, houses, nam... More

Panoramic map of Ellenville, N.Y. 1887.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 558 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2

Charles Westbrook family, Comstock, Nebraska

original size: 8x6 Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chevy Chase, Section 2, adjacent to Washington D.C. /

Cadastral map of planned residential subdivisions in what is now the inc. town of Chevy Chase Village (Montgomery County, Md.). Shows lot lines, lot/block numbers, individual trees, and landscaped areas. Does n... More

Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897.

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cowboys near Kennedy Post Office, Cherry County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maps, plans, restorations, etc. Restoration of Robinson's Arch ; resto...

Photograph shows reproduction of two drawings by American Colony member Ernest Forrest Beaumont.

This is where the mill children go to school. Lancaster, S.C. Enrollme...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Il tricolore Italiano in Tripolitania e Cirenacia : diario illustrato ...

Italian propaganda map of the Italo-Turco war in Libya in 1912. "1° Novembre 1911." Includes text, shows troop position by oversize Italian and Turkish flags. Available also through the Library of Congress Web ... More

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George Cross's home and some of the family. Sanitation below the avera...

Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lenox Hill Set'm't [i.e., Settlement]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Heads of the various divisions of the striking shopmen who held a long...

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

Paul J. Green and his wife and one of their daughters showing the way ...

Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Jena, Louisiana. Paul J. Green and his wife and one of their daughters...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plan of Jerusalem Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beginning of a Jewish settlement at Qastina, Feb. 26, 1940

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

Interior of a one room shack in a settlement of Negro farmers who had ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French village, a small settlement on Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Isla...

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.

French village, a small settlement on Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Isla...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman living in a tent in a settlement for workers at Fort Bragg, near...

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

French Village, a small settlement on St. Thomas Island, Virgin Island...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

In a trailer settlement of workers from Fort Bragg. Manchester, North ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bedroom at Shakertown, a Shaker settlement in Kentucky

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

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...

Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More

Nanking, China / - A black and white photo of a map

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

The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, i...

At the time of Moundville's heaviest residential population, the community took the form of a three hundred-acre village built on a bluff overlooking the river. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More

A rare sight in America late in 2012: a working payphone in a rural se...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Plaque for Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail located in Chinese Camp, a smal...

Chinese Camp, now mostly a ghost town, is best known for its Tong wars that pitted hundreds of members of rival clans in 1856. Battles were fought with pitchforks, rakes, and other mining and farm tools. Despit... More

A stout palm tree at the Desert Studies Center at the tiny settlement ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in ... More

Church in Chinese Camp, a small settlement in Tuolumne County, Califor...

Chinese Camp, now mostly a ghost town, is best known for its Tong wars that pitted hundreds of members of rival clans in 1856. Battles were fought with pitchforks, rakes, and other mining and farm tools. Despit... More

Wood sculpture in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Grass Valle...

Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A.A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "O... More

Firehouse in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Grass Valley, Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodrow Union Church in the settlement of Paw Paw in Morgan County, We...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡ : tuzemnoe naselenie ...

The illustrations are 491 mounted photographs. "Vidy iz Kokanskago khanstva sni︠a︡tye ... G.E. Kryvt︠s︡ovym": last 7 plates (15 photographs) Produced in 7 copies? Collection has been digitized and is available ... More

The Atlantic Neptune, 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

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live her...

A bedroom with a bed and clothes hanging on the wall. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House, Bracketville, Seminole-Negro Settlement

Title transcribed from item. District no. 27. Picture no. 252. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Admin... More

Ebenezer Smith House, 20 Main Street, Durham, Strafford County, NH

Survey number: HABS NH-14 Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Initial Construction

A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

Relief shown by hachures. Orientation varies. Phillips, 1326 Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies. Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

Historical atlas of Paulding County, Ohio : containing maps of Pauldin...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5954 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Paulding County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

Historical atlas of Paulding County, Ohio : containing maps of Pauldin...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5954 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Paulding County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: The historic plan of Washington, designed by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as the site of the Federal City, represents the sole American example of a comprehensive baroque city plan with a coordinated s... More

L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: The historic plan of Washington, designed by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as the site of the Federal City, represents the sole American example of a comprehensive baroque city plan with a coordinated s... More

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Agony with c...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Main House & Office, Jerusalem Road, Tyri...

Survey number: HABS MA-1238 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Remodeling a house into a hospital ("Joseph Barrell House remodeled a...

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

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kassima ibni Abassa Shakh...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 18, no. 43.

[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile].

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

James Brown House, Fifth & Main Streets, Silverton, Marion, OR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS OR-12 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction

[CIA terrain board collection].

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

Leavenworth City, Kansas Tery. Settled fall of 1854. 3000 pop. 1856

Library has two impressions. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bachmann.

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Ox Barn, Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, Berks...

Significance: This barn is the largest and among the original buildings of this extraordinarily well preserved Shaker settlement. Established in 1792 by 3 brothers: Joshua, Abel & William Allen, it was the 4th... More

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Building No. 26, Jerusalem Road, Tyringha...

Survey number: HABS MA-1238-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of Bethlem, the great Moravian settlement in the province of Pe...

Print shows view of community of Bethlehem, a cluster of large and small buildings in a bucolic setting. Another impression in: Scenographia Americana. London : J. Bowles, 1768. Printed for John Bowles at No. ... More

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Building No. 24, Jerusalem Road, Tyringha...

Survey number: HABS MA-1238-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Gen...

279 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. B&w copy Inscribed in ink at bottom: 279. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. of New York July 23, 1847. Color co... More

Wylie Mills, Chester, S.C. and settlement of houses. No schools for al...

Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photographs of the Dead Sea and surrounding area

Album page image number 1-14 (p. 1-27) Photographs include: Map of the Dead Sea, man floating in Dead Sea, Cape Ras Feshkha, collecting salt from the lagoon, Wady Derejeh, 'Ain Jiddy (Ein Gedi), shittim trees, ... More

Kalaupapa Water Supply System, Waikolu Valley to Kalaupapa Settlement,...

The address used in title block for the measured drawings incorrectly identifies the location as Maui County. The Kalaupapa Water Supply System is located in Kalawao County. Significance: From 1866, Hawaiians ... More

Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ istoricheskai︠a︡ / / po raspori︠a︡zhenīi︠...

The plates contain (in a complete copy) 203 photographs and 13 hand-colored maps or plans. Produced in 7 copies? Collection has been digitized and is available online. See the collection overview, 287_turkestan... More

The history of Virginia, in four parts. I. The history of the first se...

ESTC N7255 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... 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.