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Steamship Brasil, Moore McCormack Line. Suite U168 II

Public domain photograph of bedroom or living room, interior decor, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steamboats passing at midnight: on Long Island

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6139

Birds eye view of Sixth Street wharf, Washington, D.C.

Print shows the busy wharves in southwest Washington, DC, where wounded soldiers oftenarrived. In the foreground, the U.S.M. paddle steamboat "John Brooks" filled with Union soldeirs in the foreground, soldiers... More

Excursion steamers at wharves, Detroit

Negatives are close variants. "G 80" on A negative; "G 82" and "dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co., nos. 068057, 013634 (the latter erased). Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.

Photo shows Tug boat S.J. Christian in front of the Charles B. Hill, which is on the ways. The passenger steamer Conestoga is on the left. (Source: C. Seavey, 2018) Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out o... More

In the Lost Channel, 1000 Islands

"New Island Wanderer" on steamboat. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "574-3" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28988. Size: 6.5 x 8.5 in... More

Saturday half holiday, bound for Coney Island, U.S.A

Stereograph showing passenger-filled steamboats on river. 48250Xp1s U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1892 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toro... More

[R.M.S. Lusitania, hit by torpedos off Kinsale Head, Ireland]

Photograph of drawing, made for the New York Herald and the London Sphere, shows the R.M.S. Lusitania as a second torpedo hits behind a gaping hole in the hull. J203512 U.S. Copyright Office. On back on mount ... More

The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"

The artist ridicules the government's early efforts to overhaul and augment a somewhat outdated Union fleet to blockade Southern ports and effectively defend against Confederate privateers and blockade-runners.... More

The magnificent new steamer Puritan, built of steel and iron: one of t...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4201

Shipwrecks of Isle Royale National Park, Glenlyon Wreck Site, Glenlyon...

Significance: The shipwrecks located within the archipelago of Isle Royale represent many types and stages of the development of maritime steam technology. Vessel types include passenger steamers, bulk, and pa... More

Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT

Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More

Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT

The low pressure steamboat "Isaac Newton": passing the palisades on th...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4148

Wreck of Transport Steamers "Maple leaf" and "Genl. Hunter". St. Johns...

Title inscribed below image. Date derived from historical sources. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.523) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The sinking of the steamship Ville du Havre

On Nov. 23, 1873, the French liner Ville du Harve collided with the Loch Earn and sank within minutes. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. ... More

Steamboat constructed by the Soldiers at Chattanooga, 1863

Title inscribed below image. Sketches of a man and woman, and muscular arm, on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-26. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.953) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Mission Point and dock, Mackinac Island, Mich.]

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

A midnight race on the Mississippi

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4478

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Sunken warships, Port Arthur] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

H63457 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

La Crosse, Wisc. 1873 / George H. Ellsbury, del. ; Milwaukee Lith. & E...

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

[Medical supply ships "Connecticut" and "Planter" docked at a wharf on...

Photograph showing two steamboats carrying medical supplies docked at a wharf on the Appomattox River in Virginia.

Ocean liners: S.S. St. Paul - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Norway, the steamer parting the fjord

Drawing shows a sidewheel steamship from behind, as it passes out of a Norwegian fjord. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife. Inscribed upper... More

The Levee, Lousiville, Ky. - Public domain image of a steam boat

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

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...

Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More

U.S.S. Alert. Warship photograph collection

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

Steamer Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Harbor and waterfront, Boston, Massachusetts.

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

Steam Tug HERCULES, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco Cou...

Significance: The Steam Tug HERCULES is a National Historic Landmark, significant as the only oceangoing steam tug on the West Coast. Typical in the early 20th century, this steam tug hauled log floats, large ... More

The SACRAMENTO and OAKLAND steamers, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 316. LOT subdivision subject: Ships and River Steamers.

Great naval victory in Mobile Bay, Aug. 5th 1864

Print shows battle between Union monitors and sloops against Confederate ships and ram CSS Tennessee in Mobile Bay with Fort Morgan in the distance. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Rese... More

Ship "Falls of Clyde", Hawaii Maritime Center,Pier 7, Honolulu, Honolu...

Significance: Falls of Clyde, a National Historic Landmark vessel, is the world's only surviving four-masted, full-rigged ship and the only surviving sailing oil tanker left afloat in the world. Built as a bul... More

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / ...

Inscribed in pencil on verso: A460216. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

The American steamship Columbia, of New York for Europe

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

Ohio and Monongahila [i.e. Monongahela] Rivers from the suspension bri...

Drawing shows a view of the hills along the Ohio and Monogahela rivers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with buildings along the shore and a steamboat on the water. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreig... 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.

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. Illus. in: Das illustrirte Mississippithal: ... / von H. Lewis. Dusseldorf : Arnz ... More

Joseph Whitney - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Image of stern of ship, with view above and below water, with longboat rowing out to meet it. Details of ship's exterior also on recto, but upside down. Title inscribed vertically left margin and lower left. Gi... More

The Pawnee - Public domain document scan of drawing

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 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.

U.S. Steam Frigate "Susquehannah" [and] U.S. War Steamer "Bienville"

Broadside view of two sidewheel steamships. Title inscribed below images. Inscribed below image of Bienville: N.B. The "De Soto" is just like the above. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1099 verso) For... More

U.S. Gun Boat "Daylight" - Public domain document scan of drawing

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

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.

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.

[Ironclad USS Essex at Baton Rouge, Louisiana]

Probably photographed by McPherson & Oliver. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie, La., 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War... More

Peace - burial of Wilkie / Turner ; F.E. Jones.

Print shows a steamship illuminated by flames during burial at sea of David Wilkie. Caption continues: Engraved expressly for the Ladies' Repository. Illus. from: The Ladies repository; a monthly periodical de... More

Position of ft. Henry on Tennessee River

Steamboat on river heading toward fort. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-27. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.792 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Commodore Farragut's squadron and Captain Porter's mortar fleet enteri...

Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass"; some are identified as the "Colorado, 40 Guns", "Pensacola on the Bar", "Westfi... More

U.S. Marine Hospital and Goat Island - From Steamboat Point, San Franc...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 385. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Waterfront. This record contains unverified old data f... More

Wheeling, West Virginia, Ohio River steamer and the Island in 1869

Photograph shows stern wheeler, the R. R. Hudson docked. Photo owned by Wm. Richardson.

A cotton steamer [in New Orleans]

Wood engraving by John Andrew & Son. Illus. in: Every Saturday, vol. 3, 1871 July 22, p. 93. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - PLANTATION CROPS COTTON. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Captio... More

North Carolina. The steamship "Metropolis," wrecked in a gale off Cur...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1878 Feb. 16, p. 413.

[The Imperial Ship, İstanbul, designated for the imperial riding] / Co...

The Sultan's private yacht. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. No. 474. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman... More

Twilight - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Public domain photograph of ferry, steam boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The ship Aydın] - Public domain image of a steam boat

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul an environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[North from the battery, West Point]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a landscape with water, mountains, and sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The Imperial Yacht Teşrifiye] - Public domain image of a steam ship o...

Several men lined up on side of moored boat bearing a Turkish flag. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 2. No. 57. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, n... More

U.S.S. Dolphin - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

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

Ocean liners: S.S. Saale - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

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

Ocean liners: S.S. Brittannic sic, photo by John S. Johnston

Attribution based on style of title and numbering. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022341. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Ocean liners: S.S. Rugia - Public domain image of steamship

Attribution based on style of title and numbering. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022379. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Steamboats along the levee, New Orleans

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05754. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

General Admiral, Russian [ship]

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

[Str. Tashmoo] - Public domain image of steamship

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

Brazilian battleship Aquidaban. Warship photograph collection

Photo possibly taken during the Columbian Naval Review, 1893, when the Aquidaban came to the Hudson River at New York City (Source: Charley Seavey, 2012, and similarity to negative D4-21218)

Str. John Craig - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

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

The Volunteer, Goelet Cup Race, August 7, 1891

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

Str. Troy - Public domain image of steamship

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

H.M.S. Australia. Warship photograph collection

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

Nourmahal, Aug. 4, 1895 - Public domain image of steamship

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

Two river steamers at Saraghat (?) on the Ganges

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... More

Oneonta - Public domain image of steamship

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

Sultana - Public domain image of steamship

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

Ocean liners: S.S. Rotterdam - Public domain image of steamship

Attribution to Johnston based on negative D4-22369. Second flag: N.A.S.M.; third flag: United States Mail. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022380. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Ship, GEORGE W. ELDER, in ice on bay with mountains behind, Alaska or...

Photoprint by Edward S. Curtis. Copyrighted by E.H. Harriman. No. X261. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ships.

American - Public domain image of steamship

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

ACQUATANIA - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain photograph of people boarding on a ship, ocean liner deck, port, steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S.S. James Reed - Public domain image of steamship

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

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

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.

Title from jacket. "G 6016" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039088. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Detroit River scene, North Land]

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

[Str. City of Ottawa entering Cuyahoga Creek, Cleveland, Ohio]

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

Lost Channel, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River

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

MAGESTIC - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain photograph of people boarding on a ship, ocean liner deck, port, steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mardi Gras, New Orleans, U.S.S. Galveston with Rex]

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

Str. "City of Erie," Cleveland and Buffalo Line

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children playing quoits on deck of Steamer Comus

Title devised by cataloger. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. Jason - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

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

Passenger steamer in Sainte Claire ship canal

"Phostint" card. No. 9606. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Str. Alberta at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.]

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

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

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description