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Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.

Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 83 Differs from o... More

Abolition frowned down. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A satire on enforcement of the "gag-rule" in the House of Representatives, prohibiting discussion of the question of slavery. Growing antislavery sentiment in the North coincided with increased resentment by so... More

Great mass meeting to endorse the call of the Legislature of South Ca...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 261 (1860 Nov. 24), pp. 8-9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: ... More

Charleston Harbor S.C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter.

Regional view of Charleston Harbor showing the city of Charleston on the Ashley and Cooper rivers, Castle Pinckney on Shute's Folly Island, Pleasantville and Mt. Pleasant Battery, Mechanicsville and batteries o... More

The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.

South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More

The blockade of Charleston - Public domain historical image

Three sailing ships: "Vandalia", the prize "Arthur Middleton", and "Roanoke". Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 247 (1861 Sept. 21), p. 599.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 27, pp. 264-265. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

Soldiers' chapel - Public domain historical image

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Negro slaves 1862 Edisto Island, S.C. (plantation of James Hopkinson)

Photo shows a group of African American slaves posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Inscribed... More

Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., St. Phi...

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 6077. Brady Handy Studio.

Map of Devaux Neck on Broad River, South Carolina.

Devaux Neck is formed by the Tulfinny River and Coosawatchie River as they branch off the Broad River. The Peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. Map shows rebel forces protecting the r... More

The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for...

Illustration showing people on first excursion trip of the South Carolina Railroad, 15th January 1831; it was built at the West Point Foundery Shops in New York City. Illus. in: The history of the first locomot... More

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Gossiping at the gate]

Stereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 468. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.

[Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.]

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C., Confederate States of America.

Copyright 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Ft. Moultrie, Charleston. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-5800) lists title as: Osceola's grave, Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C. Detroit Pub... More

Orphan house, Charleston, S.C. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosev...

Stereograph showing Roosevelt surrounded by children. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.C. Whitney's residence, Aiken, S.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

East Battery, Charleston, S.C. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arkwright Cotton Mill, Spartanburg, S.C., Panoramic Photograph

H125656 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; April 12, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43776. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

King Street, looking north, Charleston, S.C

"G 7882" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072468. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Birdie? Watts and Ellen Watts spinners in Clifton Mills, Clifton, S.C....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3007. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

6:15 P.M., Going home from the Arkwright Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boy shucker. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Caroli...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Varn & Platt Canning Co. Rosie & her doll. Location: Bluffton, South ...

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

Scene in canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots o...

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

POLLOCK, WILLIAM PEGUES. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, 1918-1919. WITH ...

Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

120th Infantry, Col. William B. Cochran, commanding, Camp Sevier, S.C....

J228915 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Richards Film Service, Inc.; March 22, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45725. Copyright claimant's address: Montgomery, Ala.

William Vanderhorst House, Kitchen Building, 54 Tradd Street, Charlest...

Survey number: HABS SC-551-A Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brookland Plantation House, Old Charleston Road (State Route 261), Sta...

Survey number: HABS SC-243 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charleston ironwork details, Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolin...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

This group of congressmen is organizing for a vigorous fight to put th...

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

Son of sharecropper family at work in the cotton near Chesnee, South C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cypress swamp near Summerville, South Carolina

Public domain image of wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro boy. Florence County, South Carolina

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

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Marine with the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro youngsters watching the construction of the prefabricated houses...

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

Moving a cemetery out of the Santee-Cooper Basin. South Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greenville(?), South Carolina. Air Service Command. Signal corps men o...

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

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Writing a letter home

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Enlisted men shaving ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Senator Thurmond of South Carolina / WKL.

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Thurmond. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR... More

1994 South Carolina State Winner

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

A cluster of dwarf palmetto plants at the Audubon Center at Beidler Fo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The center sits within the Four Holes Swamp, a 45,000-acre matrix of black water sloughs and lakes, shallow bottomland hardwoods, and ... More

A cheetah strolls for visitors as part of the Myrtle Beach Safari prog...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. T.I.G.E.R.S gives visitors an opportunity to meet and interact with an array of animals at a 50-acre wildlife preserve in Myrtle Beach... More

Hercules the liger, half lion, half tiger, lolls for visitors as part ...

A map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with pa...

Shows provinces, coastal towns and a few frontier settlements, Indian villages and tribal territory, English "Factories" among the Indians, mines, rivers, numerous place-names. Covers also part of Pennsylvania,... More

Colored rule in a reconstructed(?) state / Th. Nast.

Cartoon showing members of the South Carolina Legislature in argument in the House, with Columbia rebuking them, saying "You are aping the lowest whites. If you disgrace your race in this way you had better tak... More

Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 334. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Colton's map of the southern states : including Maryland, Delaware, Vi...

Relief shown by spot heights and hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 25.6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "No. 6" in upper left mar... More

Charles Fraser House, Carriage House & Slave Quarters, 55 King Street,...

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

Lanneau-Norwood House, 417 Belmont Avenue, Greenville, Greenville, SC

Significance: Outstanding example of the Second Empire style and for association with prominent residents of Greenville; Charles Lanneau had the house built for him c. 1877; purchased by John W. Norwood in 1907... More

Lanneau-Norwood House, 417 Belmont Avenue, Greenville, Greenville, SC

Pineville Chapel, State Road S-8-204, Pineville, Berkeley County, SC

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: As a contributing resource to the Pineville Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Pineville Chapel is one of two early n... More

Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church, 1 block North of SC Route 17, McPher...

Significance: Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church is architecturally significant as an antebellum Greek Revival Church with later 19th century alterations and as a summer chapel for low-country planters. Rectangul... More

Hunting Island Lighthouse, Lighthouse, Hunting Island State Park, U.S....

Significance: Guide to sailing vessels, used until 1933 by United States Lighthouse Service, now used as an observation platform. One of few surviving historic lighthouses in South Carolina. Survey number: HAB... More

Hunting Island Lighthouse, Lighthouse, Hunting Island State Park, U.S....

Snee Farm, 1240 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, SC

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

Snee Farm, 1240 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, SC

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

Attack of the Seminoles on the block house

Print shows an attack by the Seminole Indians possibly on a fort on the Withlacoochee River in December 1835. No. 6 in set of 8 "Views of Florida." The State Library and Archives of Florida cites as "Lithograph... More

Negro quarters, T.J. Fripp plantation, St. Helena Island (near Beaufor...

Photograph shows a group of African American women holding babies outside of their living quarters, possibly on Thomas J. Fripp plantation on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015;... More

Medway Plantation, U.S. Route 52, Pine Grove, Berkeley County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-140 Building/structure dates: 1686 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work

Burt-Stark Mansion, 400 North Main Street, Abbeville, Abbeville County...

2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: The Burt-Stark house was constructed around 1850 by David Lesly, a local lawyer and planter, and came in the midst of a building spree among Abbeville'... More

Charleston, South Carolina. View, American Civil War Glass Negative.

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

Christ Episcopal Church, North Church Street, Greenville, Greenville, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS SC-13-6 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work

William McElwee House, Kings Mountain Recreational Area, York, York Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS SC-11 Building/structure dates: 18t3 Initial Construction

[Charleston, S.C. The Post Office (old Exchange and Custom House, 122 ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

DeBruhl-Marshall House, 1401 Laurel Street, Columbia, Richland County,...

Significance: A fine example of the Classic Style in Southern domestic architecture. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-3 Building/structure dates: ca. ... More

DeBruhl-Marshall House, 1401 Laurel Street, Columbia, Richland County,...

Kershaw County Courthouse, Broad & King Streets, Camden, Kershaw Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS SC-13-9 Building/structure dates: ca. 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1847 Subsequent Work

[Unidentified young soldier in Confederate uniform and South Carolina ...

Same sitter as ambrotype processed as AMB/TIN no. 2714. Case: Berg, no. 3-156. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More information about this coll... More

Petersburg, Va., April 1865; Dead South Carolina soldier in trenches

Photo shows a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was taken t... More

A view of the sally-port of Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows a view of the war damaged solid brick entrance to Fort Moultrie after the war. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). "No. 41." Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Dig... More

Old Marine Hospital, 20 Franklin Street, Charleston, Charleston County...

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

Broad River Bridge, Spanning Broad River at U.S. Highway 29, Gaffney, ...

Significance: The completion of this 1,035' span was the last section of a larger project to improve U.S. Highway 29 across South Carolina. The structure is unusual because of its skewed through truss spans. ... More

Edisto Island Presbyterian Church, Edisto Island, Charleston County, S...

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

Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...

Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More

Funeral obsequies of free-trade, Political Cartoon

A gloomy view of the effects of the Polk administration's Tariff of 1846. The artist echoes Whig condemnation of the measure as adverse to American trade. A funeral cortege, composed of administration supporter... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... More

[Micah Jenkins, 1835-1864, half length, seated, facing slightly right,...

No. 4825. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

Castle Pinkney [i.e. Pinckney], Charleston, S.C., August 1861, Federal...

No. 4375. Mounted with one other photograph. Hand written on verso: "See Miller, vol. 7, p. 27". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy

The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More

Drayton's negro quarters, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows soldiers and slaves in front of the slave quarters on Drayton's plantation. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.271). General info... More

[Freed slave children with their teachers]

Title from inventory. Stereoview shows a group of African American children of all ages posed in front of their schoolhouse in Beaufort, South Carolina. The Caucasian women standing behind them on the steps of... More

[Part of South Carolina and Georgia]

Scale 1:350,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 365.5 Southern half of an unidentified printed map. Sheet extends from Augusta south to Jacksonville, Georgia, and Beaufort, South Carolina, west to Eatonton, Georg... More

The end of the rebellion in the United States, 1865 / C. Kimmel.

A sequel to Kimmel's grand image "The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States" (no. 1865-19), issued the year before. The artist depicts in symbolic terms the downfall of the Confederacy. Columbia, crown... More

[Charleston, S.C.] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence military prison series--"Rejected" / J.E. Taylor.

Prisoners(?) being rejected. 13463 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 29. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor, 1897.

St. Philip's Church, Charleston, S.C. view, photochrome print postcard...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51295". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. General information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

Old cemetery, St. Michael's, Charleston, S.C.

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

John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver--4 loom...

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

BASEBALL, CONGRESSIONAL. TEAMS AND CROWD: BYRNES, JAMES FRANCIS, REP. ...

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

LEVER, FRANCIS ASBURY. REP. FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, 1901-1919

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

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Alternate title: Planter's Hotel. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1736. First planned theater in America. Shortly after 1800 it became a ruin and the Planter's Hotel was built aro... More

Chairman senate Agriculture committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Sena...

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

Josiah Smith House, 7 Meeting St., Charleston, Charleston County, Sout...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old tenant house seen thru window of the prefabricated houses on the F...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More