6,945 Ships Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Winona. [Ironclad] - Public domain drawing

Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of submarine on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.584) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Landing supplies at Daiquiri - Public domain scan / drawing

"No. 1." Illustration for McClure's magazine; not published. Left section of two-part panoramic drawing of American landing operations; cf. CAI - Glackens (W.J.), no. 25 (B size). No accession number. Forms par... More

Meraco Speedster Square Stern Canoe, Michigan Maritime Museum, South H...

Significance: This St. Louis Arrowhead Canoe has a square stern for outboard motor use and it embodies characteristics of both powered runabout and canoe. Compared to a canoe, the increased beam, stability and... More

U.S.S. Cincinnati. Warship photograph collection

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

Russells Brigade, 1st div. 6th Army Corps, crossing in Pontoons to sto...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: One half. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 16, 1863, p. 308. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.506) Reference print avai... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Views on the Appomattox at Port Walthall

Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed upper right: I enclose a dup from one of the papers giving a description of the scene. Inscribed below title: The nearest point to Petersburg, approached by the Gun Boats t... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Supply. Warship photograph collection

Broadside view of frigate. Title inscribed below image. Outline of billowing sails on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.129) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Supply - Public domain drawing

Broadside view of frigate. Title inscribed below image. Outline of billowing sails on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.129) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

U.S.S. Texas entering Havana Harbor from Cabanas

J295984 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; American Photo Studios; February 1, 1928; DLC/PP-1928:47238. Copyright claimant's address: Havana, Cuba. Section at right is missing.

U.S.S. Texas, ship's company - Public domain portrait photograph

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

U.S. Ship Cumberland - Public domain drawing

Broadside view of frigate. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.239) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file O. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter TANEY, Pier 5, Pratt Street, Baltimore, Indepe...

Significance: The U.S. Coast Cutter TANEY was commissioned by the United States Coast Guard in 1936 and served the American public for 50 years, including distinguished service during World War II. The TANEY i... More

[Three scenes of military facilities: lower battery on the Ogeechee de...

Possibly by William Waud. Title devised from inscriptions below images. Formerly Waud no. C-100. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1027) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Niagara elevator, Buffalo, N.Y. / Sage, Sons & Co. Lith. Print'g and M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pontoon bridge over the James River above Ft. Powhatan

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below title: put in more boats ad libitum; evening effect misty; Inscribed upper left Atlanta 3 ports on a side. Sunset; rebel ram Atlanta. G... 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

USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

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

USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

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

USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

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

New Bedford harbor / L.D. Eldred., engraving, Library of Congress

Ships and boats in harbor, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo Bay from radio tower, U.S.N. [...]

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1948. No. 1136. Forms part of Josephus Daniels collection. Donor information derived from photo mounting technique. Date based on shelflist card for LOT 5400.

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

West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-...

Significance: The piers at West 55th and West 56th streets are important and rare remains of historic transatlantic commerce in the Port of New York, being two of only three municipal piers built for this traff... More

West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-...

Significance: The piers at West 55th and West 56th streets are important and rare remains of historic transatlantic commerce in the Port of New York, being two of only three municipal piers built for this traff... More

West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-...

Significance: The piers at West 55th and West 56th streets are important and rare remains of historic transatlantic commerce in the Port of New York, being two of only three municipal piers built for this traff... 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

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

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

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

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

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

US Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, Womens Bay, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Boroug...

See also HAER MI-121 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER AK-49 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. Significance: ... More

US Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, Womens Bay, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Boroug...

See also HAER MI-121 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER AK-49 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. Significance: ... More

US Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, Womens Bay, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Boroug...

See also HAER MI-121 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER AK-49 for similar documentation. Includes drawings, photographs, and written data. Significance: ... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

[Ferdinand II, King of Spain, pointing across Atlantic to where Columb...

Reference copy filed in P&P Biog. File under Fernando V. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Niwa Tokei - Tsuru kame to takarabune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: full Obosho Nishikie Surimono, folded. Surimono for the celebration of cutting the long slee... More

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, perhaps coming down the Cooper Ri...

Watermark: AMIES. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 93. (DLC/PP-1995:140.93). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

Regular line of clipper ships for San Francisco. Elegant California Cl...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 44.

[Crane by river with ships nearby (Washington Aqueduct?)]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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.

[Broadside views of the Whitehead, Cohasset, and Young America]

Title devised and inscribed below images. Formerly Waud no. C-118. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1045) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Long boat, U.S. Navy - Public domain drawing

Faint sketch of sailor standing before longboat towards stern. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: 82. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.59) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Five views of the Susquehannah and the Ceres]

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.84) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Steamships and sailboats] - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Broadside views of seven ships. Title devised. Inscribed on two steamships: [McLaw?] and Princton [sic]. Inscribed upper right: 96. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.339) Forms part of: Morgan collectio... More

U.S. Transport "Great Republic" in tow of the Vanderbilt (Clipper rig)

Broadside view frigate. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-55. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.982 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S. Transport "Star of the South"

Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.244) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[A hoist for ship building] - Public domain drawing

Steamship in background. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.631) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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

[Yokohama kōeki seiyōjin nimotsu unsō no zu], Sadahide Utagawa

American and French(?) ships in a harbor transporting cargo and passengers. Title and other information based on entry for item in exhibition catalog. Yokohama-e print. Part of a pentaptych. Ōban size print. Th... More

Potomac River, Sept. 31st, 1861

Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Signed upper left: Wau[d] Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image and crossed out: "Putnam" and "Lockwood." Formerly Waud no. C-113 Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP... More

Indian Head, Md. - Public domain drawing

Ships and sailboats on the Potomac. Title devised. Inscribed within image, from left to right: Tug boat Murrey; Jacob Riels of U.S.; Indian Head, Md.; Yankee; Rugrun [?]; Satelite; Imoluch [?]; Seminole; Freest... 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

[Three illustrations of ships and icebergs]

Illus. in: The Polar World, The Arctic Seas, New York, 1869, pp. 46 & 47. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - ARCTIC REGIONS. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arctic Reg... More

U.S.S. Hamilton - Public domain image of a steam boat

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

Eskimo children at Proven, Greenland, July 27,1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing children standing in front of a raised kayak with a harbor beyond during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 108.

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

U.S.S. Thetis - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

U.S.S. Texas - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

U.S.S. Boston, land drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General view of locks, Sault Ste. Marie

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

[Dominion Line steamship] - Public domain image of steamship

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

New York Naval Reserves at church service on U.S.S. NewHampshire

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Hawk - Public domain image of steamship

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

U.S.S. Polaris, equipped for arctic exploration

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

U.S.S. Hartford, forecastle - 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. Chicago. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[U.S.S. Portsmouth] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

U.S.S. Cincinnati. Warship photograph collection

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

U.S.S. San Francisco, captain's gig

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

U.S.S. San Francisco. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. San Francisco, stowing hammocks

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S.S. Chicago. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Amphitrite - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[U.S.S. San Francisco, ward room]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of U.S.S. Philadelphia, Admiral Gherardi

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

U.S.S. San Jacinto - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

U.S.S. Indiana - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

S.S. Northland sic at Sault Ste. Marie

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011313. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[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

Shipping cotton, Savannah, Ga. - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Newark, junior officers - Public domain portrait photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Newark, sword exercise - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. New York. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. New York, washing clothes

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

Spanish caravel Santa Maria - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description