waterways

Canoeing at Belle Isle, Detroit

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1670". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Doges' Palace, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8202". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Coolvest, Rotterdam, Holland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "6157". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ... More

[Villa Belsa, Biarritz, Pyrenees, France] view, photochrome print post...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9543". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Jesmond Dene, old mill, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1544". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Merchant harbor, Lorient, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites

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

St. Cloud / Eugène Atget.

Pond and statues in St. Cloud, a suburb of Paris, France. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 1. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known ... More

Kaukauna Lock & Dam, Storage Building at Lock 3, Approximately 30 feet...

Significance: This frame storage/garage serves as part of the Fox River Project Office located at Kaukauna Lock 3. The storage facility is an important part of the Kaukauna Locks and Dam Complex. Survey number... More

Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Keewaydin, Thousand Islands

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

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: cutter drill, under oars

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pratt Street oyster wharf, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 6876. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind. Shellfish; Boats; Wharves; African Americans; Ph. Ind.

Manhattan Bridge, New York and Brooklyn

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. River scenes on the Tigris. The Tigris. ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jaffa quay in construction

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parks Ferry across the Oconee River is still running, Greene County, G...

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lumberjack forming log raft in slough at Tillamook, Oregon

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Tugboats and cargo ships on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China]

Photo shows a bird's-eye view of tugboats and cargo ships on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Kennedy Center from the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction workers on the job

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

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More

"In the building" the Over-the-Seas auto highway to Key West, Fla.

Stereograph showing man and automobiles on bridge that is still under construction. J283167 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 26804.

President Theodore Roosevelt and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot -- T.R...

Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Erie Railway, Corning Side Hill Cut, Chemung River, Corning, Steuben C...

Survey number: HAER NY-35 Public domain photograph of river bank, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 8 & Lockhouse, Island Park Road, Glendon, Nor...

Significance: 22 feet by 100 feet guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of now three locks in the 2.5 mile Section Eight between the Chain Dam and the outlet lock ... More

Morris Canal, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ

Significance: The Morris Canal is one of the few amphibious canals to operate in the United States. Stretching from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City on the Hudson River, the Morris Canal opene... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock 26, 39.4 miles above tidewater, Dickerso...

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lismore Castle: County Waterford

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pavilion of Portugal at left, Food Products building at right with Ei...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Exhibition buildings and base of the Eiffel Tower as seen from the Ri...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Grand Canal, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6994". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Kensington Gardens, the fountains, London, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1506". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

Wharf at the Frontenac, Round Island, N.Y.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glasgow Bridge, [Glasgow, Scotland]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites

[Whitchurch, near Symonds Yat, England] view, photochrome print postca...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10950". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y.

Bird's-eye view. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake and Ohio canal - Potomac River at Williamsport, Md.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oswegatchie, Thousand Islands

Graceful gondolas on the Grand Basin below Festival Hall, World's Fair...

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

Millville Mfg. Co., Millville, N. J.

Postcard shows view of Millville Manufacturing Company in Millville, New Jersey. H103305 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907, E. B. Garrison. No. 2.

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Public domain historical photo, 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

The Venetian Hotel on the Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada

Built in 1999 on the same spot as the historic Sands Hotel once stood, Sheldon G. Adelson, Chairman of the Board of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, set out to authentically recreate the famous Italian city of Veni... More

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains. California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Industrial plant along Mill Creek in Elmwood Place, a heavily industri...

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

Aerial view of the Morris Island Lighthouse in Charleston, South Carol...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Paris. Panorama / E. Baldus.

Panoramic view of Paris, looking toward Ile de la Cité from the Louvre. In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 1. No. 52.

Hudson River, Albany, New York

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

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Ca...

Significance: This bridge is one of the seven surviving 1899 wing bridges built across the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Survey number: HAER IL-79 Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction

Davis Island Dam & Lock No. 1, Ohio River, mile 4.7 on right bank, Pit...

Includes index to related materials in National Archives RG 77. Significance: As the first lock and dam on the Ohio River, the Davis Island Lock and Dam was an experimental project testing the skills of the 19t... More

New York Barge Canal, Gowanus Bay Terminal Pier, East of bulkhead supp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...

Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More

[The Harbor (Free Port), Bremen, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "6682". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Eglington Castle, Irvine, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13124". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[Panorama by the quay, Riga, Russia, (i.e., Latvia)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8834". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[The castle and bridge, Pau, Pyrenees, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6800". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Old Zÿds, the Kolk (canal), Amsterdam, Holland]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "17455". Printed at bottom left: 17455. P.Z. - Amsterdam O.Z. Kolk. More inform... More

[The Harbor, Kingstown. County Dublin, Ireland]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12106". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[Hampton Institute campus from offshore (southern waterfront), Hampton...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Bona, Algeria]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Title from the Detroit Photographic Co., catalogue F scenic, architectural, and marine views, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, c1899. Print no. "6277". Forms part of: Views of people and sites in ... More

Leaving the Poe Lock, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51237. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Vacation days, Belle Isle Park, exterior, Detroit, Mich.

Title from jacket. "G 5014" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068065. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

NC-3 at Halifax

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brooklyn Bridge [seen from East River, New York City]

Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. D-302. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bridges; Ph. Ind.

Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018490. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Abandoned French machinery on bank of Panama Canal near Cristobal

H86865 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 20854.

Full view from river of Manhattan Bridge. N.Y.C. April 1909

Photo by Irving Underhill. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Suez Canal

Photograph shows an aerial view of the Suez Canal, Egypt, with buildings.

Railroads. Railroad yard with trucks and railroad cars III

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

Memorial Bridge. Progress of Arlington Memorial Bridge II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. River scenes on the Tigris. Tigris river...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: Hiddekel Gen. 2:4; Daniel 10:4. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Epi... More

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. River scenes on the Tigris. The Tigris. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Around the Tidal Basin for a look at the cherry blossoms. Washington, ...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freeport Sulphur Company, Grand Ecaille, Louisiana. Sulphur mine, powe...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. Navy tugboat docks at the Brooklyn navy yard pier as a commercia...

Official U.S. Navy photo. Date stamped on verso: Feb 14 1946. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Jericho and Dead Sea area and River Jordan. River Jordan, the ferry

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

Aerial view of the St. Simons Island, Georgia, Lighthouse Museum

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Located near the village and pier, the St. Simons Lighthouse is one of only five surviving light towers in Georgia. An operational nav... More

Canal leading to the Delaware River in New Castle, Delaware

Settled by Dutch, overtaken by "New Sweden" colonists, and then re-taken by Dutch, the city eventually became the capital of colonial Delaware, which in turn became the free United States' first state. Title, d... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Macon Ea...

Significance: The Smilax is a Cosmos class inland construction tender. Survey number: HAER NC-52

Belle Isle Park skating pavilion

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Corresponding glass transparency (LC-D4-81 x) available on videodisc frame 1A-28724. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03757. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Pan American Airways System Terminal Building, 3500 Pan American Drive...

Significance: At the time of its construction in 1933, the Pan American Airways System Terminal Building at Dinner Key was the largest and most modern marine air terminal in the world. Said to be one of the be... More

Dam No. 4 Hydroelectric Plant, Potomac River, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co...

Significance: Each plant epitomized the predominant low head hydroelectric technology in use at the time of its construction, Dam 4 uses tandem, multiple-runner, horizontal shaft turbines connected by rope driv... More

[Alma bridge, Paris, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1055". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama H...

Significance: One of the oldest combination vehicular and railroad bridges in Alabama, the Tennessee River Railroad Bridge played a significant role in the early agricultural and industrial development of the T... More

Boating on the lagoon, Belle Isle, Detroit

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Covington & Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, Spanning Ohio River, Covingt...

See also HAER No. OH-28, Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, for additional documentation. Significance: At the time of its completion this suspension bridge was the longest in the world. It remains one of the nation... More

[Da Mulla Palace, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6997". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

Berne. Nydeck Bridge. Cityscape photograph

View of Bern, Switzerland and the Nydeck Bridge over the River Aar. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 30 , upper left.

Canal de la Viga, City of Mexico

Historic Sites

[Venice harbor, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6877". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[On the Dnieper, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8986". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[Hollandischer Brook, Hamburg, Germany] view, photochrome print postca...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "6816". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Gondolas along the sides of the Grand Canal in front of the Rialto Br...

Notation on verso: G.L.B. Coll. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 282 (A size)

[Queenstown. County Cork, Ireland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12021". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[The Pavilions of the Nations, II, Exposition Universal, 1900, Paris, ...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "17303". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Fran... More

Stavanger, Norway

View of Stavanger, Norway, with Bokn Fjord of the North Sea in foreground. 32521 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R. Y. Young.

Church of the Holy Sepulchre and surroundings. Pool of Hezekiah

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.