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CHIEF EXECUTIVE RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 10. ...

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Gen. Gordon Granger, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Neg. may be by Webster Bros, Louisville, KY. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General in... More

Dark artillery, or, How to make the contrabands useful

Cartoon showing Afro-American men with cannons on their backs at Civil War battle scene. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Oct. 26, p. 368, top.

Comeing [i.e. coming] home from the Third Regiment Looking at the turk...

Top photograph shows reproduction of drawing, probably by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, of a Union soldier at a log barricade; bottom photograph shows Larkin Goldsmith Mead holding a turkey at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop shield with message "Union"]

Addressed to Fulton Smith Esq., Cherry Flattz [i.e. Flats], Tioga Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Washington, D.C. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Col... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union sack coat in front of American flag]

Case: Berg, no. 2-18 Purchased from: Medhurst & Co. Autographs, Documents, Images, Overland Park, Kansas, 2010. Additional information in collections file. Gift; Tom Liljenquist, 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105) More i... More

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia, eagle, shield, state seal of New...

Addressed to Mrs. Caleb Lyon, Rossville, Staten Island, N.Y.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Washington, D.C., February 27. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform with saber in front of p...

Notation on verso: "Remington." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Ronn Palm's Museum of Civil War Images, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 2017. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collecti... More

Civil War envelope showing soldier standing on rock in the sea with ea...

Addressed to Mr. John C. Williams, Wheeler, Steuben Co., N.Y.; postmarked Washington, D.C. Aug. 7, 1861; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) pp/liljmem

[Civil War envelope showing soldiers with sword and American flag]

Addressed to Miss E. J. Whittier, Skowhegan, Maine; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Portland. Notation on verso: May 14th, 1861. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

Camp Griffin 1861

Photograph shows Union soldiers and men, probably photographers including G.H. or Don Houghton, in front of shed labeled "Picture Gallery" and tent at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia. Attribution of G.H. Hought... More

"Nick Biddle," of Pottsville, Pa., the first man wounded in the great ...

Photograph shows Nicholas Biddle, an African American Union soldier, in uniform, half-length portrait, facing front. Photographer's stamp on verso. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Civil War envelope showing shield and star bearing message "The Union...

Addressed to Miss M. A. Wilkinson, Sunderlinville, Pottes Co., Penn.; postmarked Oct. 10, Md.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection o... More

Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point o...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 633 Indicates location and dates of battles, "McClellan's present defensive line" at Harrison's Landing, principal roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. Descri... More

John L. Burns

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Tyson Brothers, Gettysburg, Pa., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. On verso: clipping that describ... More

Gordon as he entered our lines. Gordon under medical inspection. Gordo...

Gordon, a runaway slave from Mississippi, in tattered clothes; bare back showing scars; and in Union Civil War uniform. From photographs by McPherson & Oliver. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 July 4, p. 429, bottom.

Michael Dunn, Raymond, Potter Co., Penna. / Photographed by Hope, succ...

Photograph shows portrait of Corporal Michael Dunn of Co. H, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, after the amputation of his legs in 1864, the result of injuries received in a battle near Dallas, Georgia, on M... More

Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commis[sion]

Print shows letterhead for the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia showing scenes in which members of the Sanitary Commission help soldiers on battlefields; includes letter notifying the recipient of being appoi... More

[Two unidentified Civil War soldiers in Union uniforms, seated in a ph...

Photo by D.C. Bettison, Louisville, Ky. With revenue stamp on back of mount. Ink caption on album page, "Genl. J.B. McPherson at Memphis, Tenn." But, photo does not match known likenesses of McPherson. Transf... More

Civil War veteran George W. Warner of Co. B, 20th Connecticut Infantry...

Photograph shows portrait of identified veteran who was wounded at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, July 2015. Forms part of: Liljen... More

Goldsmith Maid and American Girl: in the "brush home" of their capital...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2625

Elizabeth L. Comstock, Union Springs, N.Y., and Laura S. Heaviland (Ch...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Studio portrait, full-length, seated, Elizabeth L. Comstock (left), wearing a cloak and lightweight bonnet and holding a second dress bonnet, and Laura S. Heaviland (right)... More

Chattanooga from the north bank of the Tennessee

Soldiers crossing the Tennessee River on pontoon bridge, Chattanooga in background, Sept. 1863. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War / Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden. Chicago : The Puri... More

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.

[Lillie Langtry, three-quarter length portrait, facing right] / Sarony...

No. 8. Copyright by Napoleon Sarony. Public domain photograph - female portrait, the 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Union Station, Washington, D.C.] [Power House and Inspectors Building...

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Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York

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Assembly hall, Bureau of American Republics [Pan American Union Buildi...

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Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, N.Y. City Committee, C.U. [Congression...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, seated and looking downward at book on lap, of Alice Carpenter, chairman of New York City Committee, Congressional Union, wearing v-n... More

Berkman, Union Sq., 4/11/14

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Mrs. George T. Odell, of Washington, D.C., vice-chairman of the Legisl...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Mrs. George Talbot Odell, seated, gloved hands in lap, wearing dark fur-trimmed jacket with fur muff, and broad-brimmed hat with feather. Altern... More

Kuban state farm, North Caucasus, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Repu...

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Kuibyshev, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Watering the ho...

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Senorita Urbaneja, Senorita Pietre, Dr. Pedro Manual Arcaya, Minister ...

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Alexei Stakhanov explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR (...

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At Hill House, Mississippi. He wears the union button

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

Small lunchroom where students gather near Phoenix Union High School. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Pershing Guest of Honor of Baltic Club. Washington, D.C., June 1. Gen...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Unloading pigs from truck. Union Stockyards, Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The second shift at the textile mill in Union Point, Greene County, Ge...

U.S. official charges American Student Union is communist. Washington,...

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New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Union...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Reservation girl at the Union Station taking a rese...

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On the dais at luncheon in honor of second anniversary of lend-lease, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Union News restaurants, TWA, Idlewild. London Club I

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[Passengers and train employees walking near trains, Union Station, Wa...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Union Station: trains arriving and departing, MST, 8-14-63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL ... More

Restoration work on Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. In this view, work p... More

Union Station train terminal, looking past a statue and fountain dedic...

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

Twelve unidentified soldiers in a Union regimental band with cornets, ...

Photograph shows group portrait of regimental band probably from Michigan. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Paul Brzozowski, Fairfield, Connecticut, April 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist... More

The Union volunteer, Confederate States of America.

One of several patriotic prints issued by Currier & Ives in May 1861, closely following the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln's appeal to the states for troops to suppress the rebelli... More

Private Thornton Reber and Lieutenant Thomas Griffith of Co. I, 159th ...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: Ronn Palm's Museum of Civil War Images, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, September 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist ... More

Civil War veteran Isadore Banor of Co. I, 47th Ohio Infantry Regiment ...

Notation on verso: "Isador Banor, 102. Born March 5, 1811. Died Feb. 17, 1913. Louis S. Warner, Port Clinton, Ohio." Last name also spelled Benoir, Bennoir, Burnor, Buenor, and Bennor in records. Deposit; Tom ... More

Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket Evans & Pr...

Tax stamp on verso. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Nick Harris, December 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Libr... More

White House - Pamunkey River / McIlvaine.

Soldiers (?) on porch of a house on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, with steamship flying American flag at landing to the left. Similar view filed under: DRWG/US - McIlvaine, no. 3, of 1862. Forms part of the Mar... More

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War, 1861-'65

Head-and-shoulders portrait of eighteen Union generals and two Union admirals; identified below image. 11076P U.S. Copyright Office.

[Portrait of Capt. Quincy A. Gillmore, officer of the Federal Army (Ma...

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General Wright, Commander of the "Bloody Sixth Corps."

Stereograph showing General Horatio Gouverneur Wright seated in front of a tent with a soldier standing on the left. The headquarters flag from the VI Corps is displayed behind Gen. Wright.

[Portrait of Maj. Gen. Jefferson Davis, officer of the Federal Army]

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Officers of Tobacco Trade Union, Petersburg, Va.

Two African American men standing and an African American man and woman seated. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris... More

Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of evicted sharecroppers of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women's Political Union Broadside: Trumpeter Awakening New York

Trumpeter with banner of five suffrage stars heralds the suffrage march to honor the pioneers, protest disenfranchisement; notes recent progress in nine states and stalemate in New York legislature.

[Private Hiram M. Kersey, 44th Iowa Infantry regiment, standing on rug...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Berg, no. 4-22G variant. Identification of soldier from newspaper clipping found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More i... More

[Unidentified young sailor in Union uniform with American flag in fron...

Frame: Berg, 2-2. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Exh... More

Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his fl...

Adm. David Farragut lashed to upper mast, holding spyglass; during Battle of Mobil Bay, Jan. 1864. "Prang's American Chromos."

Varleth-Sip Manor, 5 Cherry Lane, Westfield, Union County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-101 Survey number: HABS NJ-265 Building/structure dates: 1664 Initial Construction

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Case: Leather scroll border with floral center. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More information about this collection is available at http://h... More

National Union Ticket. [California campaign ticket]

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Union Pacific Railroad Depot, Intersection of Kelbaker & Kelso Cima Ro...

Significance: Construction of the railway line between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, via Las Vegas, began in 1901 with the formation of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad Company by prominent ... More

Winter quarters at Centreville, Va.

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Hospital scene. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

Stereograph shows Zouave soldiers, possibly from the 5th New York Infantry Regiment, in a field hospital, tending to an injured soldier, likely at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Attributed to George Stacy. Gottheim co... More

Winslow Homer - War songs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Series of images relating to war songs. Mainly soldiers marching, but also African Americans hauling sacks on their backs. Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," is in center. Title inscribe... More

Fortress Monroe, camp scene. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope...

Stereograph shows Zouaves and other soldiers at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Staff are at ease, some standing, others seated at makeshift table, on the facing side of which is printed: N.C. Staff Mess; 5th Regt. N.Y.... More

[Letter from Isaac McCoy to his mother, Nancy McCoy, from Louisville, ...

Handwritten letter from Private Isaac McCoy of Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, on pictorial lettersheet showing the U.S. Capitol building.

[Dead man, killed by bomb at Anarchist riot, Union Square, New York Ci...

No. 49-9. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera."

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company F infantry forage c...

Case: Leather scroll motif. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/p... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with a rifle a...

Frame: Berg 7-18. Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25. Digital photo with mat removed by Mi... More

[Major General George Armstrong Custer of 2nd Regular Army Cavalry Reg...

Hoxie Collection. 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 and salt, which creates a ... More

Rock Creek Station, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, R...

Survey number: HABS WY-55

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and slouch cap with infantry in...

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Union District, South Carolina /

Relief shown by hachures. Scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D. S." Pen and ink tracing of a map in Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of S... More

Portrait of a Federal soldier. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of tintype from unidentified source. American Memory edition timeline. No. 1059 Credit line: Civil war... More

[Full standing black soldier, rifle with fixed bayonet]

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of African American soldier standing in front of a studio backdrop. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.331) Title from Gladstone collection checklist.... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: Southern Ass-Stock-Crazy

Secession cartoon. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C.W. CS ... More

The great 10,000 mile wall China

No. 15348.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with wife and daughters holding...

Case: Leather, floral and scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Forms part of: Liljenquist Fam... More

Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with saxhorn

Case: Berg, no. 1-86. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Civil War Image Shop, Milan, Ohio, June 20... More

[Civil War envelope showing bust of Columbia encircled with laurel bra...

Addressed to Mr. Emil Fourgerel, No. 16 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio; postmarked Newport, R.I., May 23; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

[Ironclad USS Essex at Baton Rouge, Louisiana]

Probably photographed by McPherson & Oliver. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: The Histor... More

Seabrook's fish pond

Photograph shows two Union soldiers and one African American man in a row boat on a pond with bridges and the Seabrook house in the distant background. Title inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladston... More

Genl Rawlings[sic]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Bust portrait of officer in uniform. Title inscribed lower left. Rawlins was promoted to Brigadier General, 11 August 1863. Purchase; Conner & Rosenkranz; 1986; (DLC/PP-1986:108).

[Union troops on rocks climbing to the summit of Lookout Mountain] / J...

Photograph shows soldiers led by Captain John Wilson reenacting climb to plant 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment battle flag on the summit of Lookout Mountain (Source: Will Stapp, January 2016). Photographed by Ro... More

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The coffee call / H.W. [i.e. W.H.]

Print shows Army of the Potomac soldiers waiting for coffee at a campfire in an encampment. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:089.01).

National Union ticket. For President Abraham Lincoln. For Vice Preside...

"War poster issued by Board of Publication, 1864" Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John B. Gallie gun, Fort McAllister, Georgia]

Title devised by Library staff based on identification by David Richardson, Jack Melton, and Talley Kirkland, September 2015. Photo formerly misidentified as Swamp Angel gun, Morris Island, South Carolina. Date... More

Civil War camp scene, showing company kitchen, 1863(?)

Alternate title handwritten on item. On mount: US Army Signal Corps "Brady photographs" catalogue, 1921.

[Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in military uniform] / M.B. Brady & Co. Nationa...

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Nevada City, from the South - Catholic Church, Union Hotel, and Sugarl...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

(Lew) (Lou) (L.N.) Beager and wife's wedding, north of West Union, nea...

original size: 6x8

Wm. Gillette's Held by the enemy

The first blacksmith shop in West Union, Custer County, Nebraska

summary: Note: Herbert Peters appears to the right. original size: 6x8