steamship

The steam ship President, Lieut. Roberts R.N. commander: the largest i...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6196

Steam ship of War Eagle

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1842." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Penniman.

Polk & Co. Going up Salt River

The artist foresees a Democratic defeat in the 1844 presidential election. Party figures Martin Van Buren, Thomas Hart Benton, vice-presidential candidate George M. Dallas, Andrew Jackson, and presidential nomi... more

The steam-ships POTTINGER and CYCLOPS stranded in Thorness Bay, Cowes,...

Wood engr. in Illus. London News, Nov. 7, 1846, p.300. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ships (2); Ships Disasters.

The BRITANNIA steamship leaving Boston, U.S.

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1847 October 23, p. 272. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston 1847; Mass. Boston harbor...; Ships BRITANNIA; Shelf.

Royal mail steam ship, Europe

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5675

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

U.S. mail steam ship, Atlantic: Collins line. builders, hull by Wm. H....

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6832

Reindeer polka

Artist: G.E. Lewis (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5537

U.S. mail steam ship Baltic: Collins line. builders, hull by Brown & B...

Design and model of the new steamer America, for the western lakes

Print showing port side view of the steamer America. Title from item. Caption continues: To be built and run between Buffalo and Cleveland. Invented, designed and drawn by Darius Davison, New York. Copyright 18... more

The American steamship Columbia, of New York for Europe

[Ben Campbell, steamship at landing]

Photographer unidentified. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 163; back, central spiral within rectangular border. Purchase; 1982; (DLC/PP-1982:095). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

United States mail steam ship "Pacific"

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Day & Son.

[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]

Drawing is on the "Susquehanna & Mississippil Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan. Watercolor drawing Taguchi Shumpei. Title devised by Library staff.

Disasters of 60 days : Wreck of Steamship Tennessee, Indian Cove, Marc...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of shipwrecks on one page plus two vignettes of (top) a shepherdess and a bear and (center) Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River, March 21th, 1853; with attached b... more

[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. Title devised by Library staff.

View of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G.

Colon, Panama Canal Zone. Busy dock activity - railroad mail cars and mail steamships. Copyrighted by F.N. Otis. Photoprint of lithograph by C. Parsons. Sketch by F.N. Otis. This record contains unverified data... more

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Includes measurements for length, breadth, weight, and horse power. Title fr... more

U.S. steam frigate Mississippi passing Punta Tristao. N. west point of...

Print shows the American side wheel steam frigate Mississippi on rough seas as it passes Tristram Point, Madeira. Title from item. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Se... more

United States steam-frigate "Merrimac"

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 Nov. 29, p. 393.

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

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Title from item.

Battle of Bad Axe = Schlacht von Bad Axe / H. Lewis pinx ; Lith. Inst....

Illustration shows an American steamship, the Warrior, firing at Indians on a raft. In the background, other Indians in boats. Title from item. Illus. in: Das illustrirte Mississippithal: ... / von H. Lewis. Du... more

Map exhibiting the fixed location of the main trunk of the New-Orleans...

Outline map of the south-central states from Mississippi to the Rio Grande. Shows the "Wheat Region of Texas." Indicates completed, located and proposed lines. Table of distances in left side of map. Scale 1:1,... more

Yorktown

Sidewheeler using steam as auxiliary power, showing men with crates of tobacco marked "P.B." (Paulin Byrd). LOT subdivision subject: Ships (clipper and steam). Title and other information transcribed from capti... more

The new American iron steamship "Champion," of the Vanderbilt line

Illustration showing the starboard side of the side-wheel steamship "Champion." Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, no. 144 (1859 October 1), p. 625.

Revenue cutter

Sketch of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Revenue Cutter Service was forerunner of Coast Guard. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.47). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S. Transport "Coatzacoalcus"

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-53. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.980 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The new and elegant screw steamship Mt. Vernon having resumed her trip...

Transportation. 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 204, Folder 1.

[Sketches of four ships]

Title devised. Ships identified: Steamer Edsall; Cambridge; Torpedo boat Stromboli. Inscribed above Steamer Edsall: Grey. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.345) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... more

Steamer S. R. Spalding. [Transport]

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship under waigh. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Broadside and bow views of eight ships and boats, and an unidentified...

Title devised. Two ships inscribed: C.P. Smith and Magnolia. Formerly Waud no. C-38. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.965) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The great eastern excursion! This mammoth steamship, the wonder of the...

Transportation. 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 204, Folder 3.

U.S. Reports: Union Steamship Co. v. N. Y. and Va. Steamship Co., 65 U...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 65; Howard Volume 24; December Term, 1860; Union Steamship Company of Philadelphia, claimants and owners of the steamship Pennsylvania, her tackle, etc., Appellants, v. the New ... more

U.S. Transport "Gove[r]nor"

Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-49. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.976 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Dirijo [sic], wrecker

Broadside view of steamship, sailor rowing longboat in foreground; detail of rigging left of image. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: [zw-b-e/ L[t] Canadian?]. Inscribed below title... more

Alliance, blockade runner

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.94) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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.

Geo Peabody

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship under waigh. Signed lower left of image: WTC. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso [and covered by paper on which image is mounted]: Steamer Geo. Peabody running... more

U.S. Gun Boat "Fanny"

Broadside view of steamship.

U.S. Transport "Peerless"

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

The U.S. steamer Search.

Broadside view. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.109) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Express--the mail boat between Washington and the army hd.qts. City Pt...

Broadside view of steamship.

For Charleston, S. C. direct from the end of Long wharf, The Boston an...

Susquehannah

Broadside sketch of the steamship Susquehannah. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: sketch-over-. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.86) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[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.

The Newport News Steamer Express Capt. Wilson

Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below images. Inscribed on ship: EXPRESS. Formerly Waud no. C-119. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1046) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil W... more

U.S. Steamer

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: Coast [survey?]. Formerly Waud no. C-40. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.967) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil ... more

Reliance

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed lower right. Formerly Waud no. C-116. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1043) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Steamship with three masts]

Broadside view. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.107) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Broadside views of three steamships]

Title devised. Inscribed below first image: U.S. Transport "Roanoke." Inscribed below the second image: U.S. GunBoat "Winfield Scott." The "Union" is the same style as the Scott. Inscribed below third image: 2 ... more

U.S. Gun Boat Montecello

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-45. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.972) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Pawnee

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.108) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Broadside and stern views of steamship Minnesota]

Inscribed below two partial sketches: Minnesota and Minnesota stern. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.6). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Saxonia

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of bow detail at right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.101) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Nipsic

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: Spars reddish color. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.95) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The South New steamship line between Boston and Savannah. The splendid...

Transportation.; Handwritten on verso: 3 Dec. 1860. 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; Portfol... more

U.S. Gun Boat "Seminole"

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: The "Wabash" is like the "Minnesota" of which you have a drawing. Formerly Waud no. C-44. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... more

Albatross

Broadside view of steamship.

U.S. Transport Marion

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: See about this and the Florida. Formerly Waud no. C-53. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.980 verso) Forms part... more

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.

Baltic and Atlantic

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0342) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Broadside views of three steamships]

Title devised. Inscribed below first image: U.S. Transport "Daniel Webster." N.B. The "Ariel" is precisely like the Webster only much longer. Inscribed below the second image: Transports "Parkersburgh" "Locust ... more

Picking up the floating bodies. The Tug McQueen picking up the body of...

[American steam packet vessel at port in Le Havre, France] / Auguste L...

Photograph shows American commercial ship with American flag flying from foremast and commercial flag flying from mainmast. Title devised by Library staff. Ship was formerly identified as U.S.S. Kearsarge. Date... more

U.S. Transport "Cahawba"

Broadside view sidewheel steamship.

U.S. Gun Boat "Daylight"

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: has Latteen Sails (a sort of Bolucca rig). Formerly Waud no. C-43. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.970) Forms part of: ... more

U.S. Steamer Mt. Vernon

Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: (Washington & Fortress Monroe line). Inscribed on ship: Mt. Vernon. Formerly Waud no. C-50. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/P... more

U.S. Steamer Adelaide, which plys [sic] between Baltimore & Fort Monro...

Broadside view of ship under weigh. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.140) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S. Tug Boat "Mercury"

Broadside view of sidewheel steamship.

Port Royal, S.C. [i.e. Va.]

Title from item. Part of Brady-Handy Collection.

Steam Sloop Pensacola brought to Washington under canvas from Pensacol...

Broadside view of frigate. Signed upper right: Waud. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-54. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.819) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The steamship Marion, on her way to New York with the wives and childr...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 23, p. 212.

U.S. gunboat Lexington [i.e. Tyler] - Mississippi River Fleet

Photograph shows a Union timberclad, the U.S.S. Tyler. No. 3122. Title from item. Cited in Miller, vol. I, p. 203, as the U.S.S. Tyler. "U.S. Army Military History Institute also identifies it as (U.S.S) Tyler"... more

U.S. gunboat Tyler - Mississippi River Fleet

Photograph shows a Union timberclad, the U.S.S. Tyler. No. 3127. Title from item. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. I, p. 189". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

The steamship Star of the West, with reinforcements for Major Anderson...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 269 (1861 Jan. 19), pp. 136-137. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416-E (1861). Caption card... more

U.S. steam gun boat "Chippewa"

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Shearman & Hart. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y.

U.S.S. Mendota, James River, Va.

No. B203. Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Arrival of the United States steam sloop Niagara at Jeddo, Japan, with...

Steamship Planter, White House Landing, Pamunkey River

Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U.S. Steam Transport Mississippi[sic]

Broadside view of steam frigate. Signed lower right: Lars Everding. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: May 24th 1862. Source unknown.

Burning of the steamship "Golden Gate" :July 27. 1862

Capture of Fort Henry by U.S. gun boats under the command of Flag Offi...

Print shows four Union ironclads in the foreground, identified as the "St. Louis", "Carondelet", "Cincinnati", and the "Essex", bombarding Confederate Fort Henry in the background; also shows two Confederate st... more

Gunboat Tyler, where W.W. Stuart served during the Civil War

Photograph shows timberclad steamer gunboat USS Tyler with crew on deck. Title from item. Tax stamp on verso. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available a... more

[Washington, District of Columbia]. Brazilian Steam Frigate at Navy Ya...

The captured Rebel privateer "Florida" and the United States steamer "...

Wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1864.

Hampton Roads, Virginia (vicinity). U.S.S. MALVERN

The President's funeral car, on a steam lighter, approacing New York, ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865 May 13. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Kazalinsk. Pristan aral'skoi flotilii

Photograph shows a steam-powered paddle wheel boat with Russian naval personnel on board. In the background, a boat along the shore and two others under construction. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtn... more

Steamship GOLDEN CITY, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 312. LOT subdivision subject: Ships and River Steamers. This record contains unverified old data f... more

Steamship SACRAMENTO, San Francisco

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s Works, Benicia, Solano County, Maretinez ...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 575. LOT subdivision subject: Solano County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

The delta of the Mississippi: Scene at southwest bar

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Nov 9.

Egypt--the religious ceremonies preliminary to the inauguration of the...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1870 Jan. 1, p. 268.

[La Crosse, Wisc. 1873]

Print showing La Crosse, Wisconsin from vantage point on the Mississippi River with the "Belle of La Crosse" steamboat at dock and a steam "Transfer Boat" the "Alex. McGregor" with two barges on the river, also... more

Nova Scotia - loss of the steamship "Atlantic" - scenes and incidents ...

The Spanish butchery

American naval response to the Spanish attack on the steamer Virginius during the Cuban Insurrection of 1868-1878. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1873 Nov. 29, p. 1061.

Photographic copy of lithograph,"The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du...