Antietam National Cemetery, Lodge House, Shepherdstown Pike (State Rou...
Significance: The cemetery's significance lies primarily in the events of the Civil War Battle of Antietam which led to its creation. Architecturally, its elaborate entrance gate and gothic-inspired lodge hous... More
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...
Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...
Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More
Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...
Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More
Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...
Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More
Joseph Poffenberger Farm, House, 17834 Mansfield Avenue, Sharpsburg, W...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Stone House, Limestone, Washington County, TN
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Culvert 100, 74.01 miles above tidewater, Sha...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-121 Survey number: HABS MD-221
Parish House, Old Mines, Washington County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-168 Survey number: HABS MO-1724 Building/structure dates: after 1820 Initial Construction
Bellevue Collegiate Institute, Caledonia, Washington County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-168 Survey number: HABS MO-1722 Building/structure dates: ca. 1872 Initial Construction
Middlekauf Farm, Barn, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-949-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
Hezekiah Reed House, 89 State Street, Montpelier, Washington County, V...
Survey number: HABS VT-67 Building/structure dates: 1826 Initial Construction
[Burton, Texas. Load of pipe under Main Street Overpass on Highway 29...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A man in a suit standing next to a group of people - FSA / Office of W...
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gus Rivers, a Cajun living near the McIntosh community in Washington C...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patent medicine shop. Hagerstown, Maryland
Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Houses near the railroad. Hagerstown, Maryland
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Main street of Hagerstown on Saturday afternoon, Maryland
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
Old man at furniture auction, Hagerstown, Maryland
Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a sign on a brick wall, Railroad bulletin, ...
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
Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton...
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of people standing in front of a building. Gre...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Houses near the railroad tracks. Hagerstown, Maryland
Public domain image of a train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Train arriving from Baltimore. Hagerstown, Maryland
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Tiff miner's home at paw-paw patch. Washington County, Missouri
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union organizer attempts to better working conditions amongst tiff min...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Car on the plain. Washington County, Colorado
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tiff mines are crude holes in ground usually ten to fifteen feet deep....
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Barn. Santa Clara, Utah. See general caption
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mr. Edward Buzzell, Yankee dairy farmer of Slocum, Rhode Island
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Filling a sack with freshly-ground flour in Kenyon's johnnycake flour ...
Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Son of Mormon farmer. Santa Clara, Utah
Public domain image of a religious scene, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Christian Art, Bible, New Testament, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Running water in home of Mormon farmer living in Sana Clara, Utah. As ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Family of Mormon farmer. Santa Clara, Utah
Public domain image of a religious scene, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Christian Art, Bible, New Testament, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
An old hermit calling for a sack of corn which he left to be ground at...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Schoolchildren. Santa Clara, Utah. General caption
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a woman and children, Arkansas. Farmers dur...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More
Mormon farmer, Ivins, Washington County, Utah
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cooking spaghetti and frying chicken for a spaghetti supper at Grape F...
Photograph shows three women cooking in a kitchen. Photographed as part of the "America eats" project for the Federal Writers' Project. Photograph by Granger. Arkansas Writers' Project.
At the Whitmore and Morse granite quarry in East Barre, Vermont
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.
Barre, Vermont. The main street
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East Montpelier, Vermont. Conrad, age eleven, son of Charles Ormsbee, ...
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Marietta, Ohio. Citizen swearing in as civilian defense worker
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, widowed mother of farme...
Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Historic buildings in the town of St. Stephens, Alabama
St. Stephens is an unincorporated community located in the southwestern part of Washington County, Alabama. It was the territorial capital of the Alabama Territory. Upon Alabama's statehood, the capital was mov... More
Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Parked Amish horse and buggy in Kalona, Iowa
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Arlington, Washington County, Nebraska
Nov 1914. 2 Sheet(s). Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Road, Wilson Bridge, Spanning Conococheague Creek at Route 40...
Significance: Wilson Bridge was built in 1819 by Silas Harry as part of an improvement of feeder roads leading to the National Road which began in Cumberland, Maryland and ended in Vandalia, Illinois. Its fiv... More
National Road, Wilson Bridge, Spanning Conococheague Creek at Route 40...
Significance: Wilson Bridge was built in 1819 by Silas Harry as part of an improvement of feeder roads leading to the National Road which began in Cumberland, Maryland and ended in Vandalia, Illinois. Its fiv... More
Sanding and stacking the kiln, Peter Pot's Pottery, West Kingston, Rho...
Index data: 1-6, Sanding excess glaze off pot; 7, Stacking the kiln; 8, Potters looking at a book of fine pottery; 9-20, Various displays of wares in the showroom at Peter Pot's, including mural dealing with Wa... More
Advance Base Depot Davisville, Building T-17, Ninth Street southeast o...
Significance: Based on research conducted at Davisville, and the documentation contained in the United States Navy's own historical accounts of its construction activities during World War II, it is apparent th... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barrac...
Significance: Barracks No. 2 was designed to house over 400 veterans and serve as a prominent architectural symbol of their care by the Federal government at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabl... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More
Oregon Electric Railway Westside Corridor, Between Watson & 185th Aven...
Significance: The Oregon Electric Railway was important to the initial growth of Beaverton as a suburb of Portland. Survey number: HAER OR-59
Oregon Electric Railway Westside Corridor, Between Watson & 185th Aven...
Significance: The Oregon Electric Railway was important to the initial growth of Beaverton as a suburb of Portland. Survey number: HAER OR-59
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Direct...
Survey number: HABS TN-254-H Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mumma Farm, Springhouse, Smoketown Road, Sharpsburg, Washington County...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, Pine Creek Bridge, Spanning Pine Creek on Z...
Significance: Built of native sandstone and ashlar masonry, and designed to complement its natural surroundings, this bridge is a superb example of "National Park Service-Rustic" stone bridge engineering. It i... More
Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...
Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More
Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...
Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More
Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...
Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More
Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...
Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More
Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...
Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More
Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...
Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More
Samuel Poffenberger House, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Significance: The Samuel Poffenberger house is significant both architecturally and as related to the Civil War Battle of Antietam Creek. Survey number: HABS MD-1100 Building/structure dates: before 1800 Init... More
Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Shed, 851 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hager...
Significance: The "little green shed" survives as the oldest structure associated with aviation pioneers Ammon H. Kreider and Lewis E. Reisner, who formed the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company (KRA) in 1926, a y... More
Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground, Sulphur Springs Road (Sulphur Sp...
Significance: Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground was founded following the Great Revival of 1800. First meeting here may have been as early as 1815. In 1842 temporary brush arbors were abandoned for a more ... More
Jane Thompson House, Caledonia, Washington County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-168 Survey number: HABS MO-1719 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
West Quoddy Head Light Station, At eastern tip of West Quaddy Head, Lu...
Survey number: HABS ME-208
Gould Wash Bridge, Spanning Gould Wash at State Route 9, Hurricane, Wa...
Significance: The Gould Wash Bridge, built by W.W. Clyde and Company of Springville, Utah under the supervision of George Adams, represents a good example of reinforced concrete T-beam bridge construction typic... More
Antietam National Cemetery, Shepherdstown Pike (State Route 34), Sharp...
Significance: On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 men and boys were killed or wounded during the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland. In early 1864, Maryland State Senator Lewis P. Frey introduced legi... More
Seward Plantation, Slave Quarters, Farm Road 390, Independence, Washin...
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N474 Survey number: HABS TX-3498-A
Herman Farm, House, North side of Showalter Road, East of I-81, Hagers...
Significance: Dated October 16, 1860, this farmhouse is an excellent documented example of a prosperous farmer's dwelling which has remained to the present with only minimal alterations. The major significanc... More
Joseph Parks Farm, Barn, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Structure name changed due to further research, 11/2005. Significance: The property known today as the Joseph Parks Farm was purchased by Jacob Mumma in 1796. The barn was most likely constructed before 1821, ... More
Joseph Parks Farm, Barn, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Structure name changed due to further research, 11/2005. Significance: The property known today as the Joseph Parks Farm was purchased by Jacob Mumma in 1796. The barn was most likely constructed before 1821, ... More
Meeting Hall, Marine on Saint Croix, Washington County, MN
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS MN-29-18
Pine Brook Bridge, Spanning Pine Brook on Town Highway 3, Fayston, Was...
Significance: One of only four kingposts left in Vermont, this example of a once common type underwent an important repair by Milton S. Graton. It also illustrates the public policy issues surrounding historic ... More
Pine Brook Bridge, Spanning Pine Brook on Town Highway 3, Fayston, Was...
Significance: One of only four kingposts left in Vermont, this example of a once common type underwent an important repair by Milton S. Graton. It also illustrates the public policy issues surrounding historic ... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Quarte...
Survey number: HABS TN-254-U Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Maine Lobster Boat Little Girls, Jonesport Harbor, Beals Island, Washi...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1249 Survey number: HAER ME-97 Building/structure dates: 2007 Initial Construction
Fayerweather House, Mooresfield Road (State Route 138) & Kingston Road...
Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lafayette Street Overpass, Spanning former St. Louis & San Francisco R...
Significance: The Lafayette Street Overpass, one of numerous grade crossing projects undertaken in 1938, was built to replace a narrow wooden bridge at this site. Like the nearby Maple Street Overpass (1936), ... More
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Conococheague Creek Aqueduct, Milepost 99.80,...
Significance: The Conococheague Creek Aqueduct was the fifth of eleven masonry aqueduct constructed along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It was the last and most ornate of the system's five multiple span aqued... More
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Conococheague Creek Aqueduct, Milepost 99.80,...
Significance: The Conococheague Creek Aqueduct was the fifth of eleven masonry aqueduct constructed along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It was the last and most ornate of the system's five multiple span aqued... More