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Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Freight Car Shop, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New H...

Significance: The Freight Car Shop recalls the importance of the New Haven Rail Yard in the late nineteenth century, when it was the principal shop facility for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. L... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Freight Car Shop, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New H...

Significance: The Freight Car Shop recalls the importance of the New Haven Rail Yard in the late nineteenth century, when it was the principal shop facility for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. L... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of ...

Significance: The Central Steam Plant is significant as an important component of the New Haven Railroad's maintenance and repair facilities. It was built during a time of thriving passenger service, a period ... More

Flushing Avenue (House), Junk yard, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

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U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 58, Billard Avenue, Baltimore, Ind...

Significance: Influenced by early 20th-century international industrial building design, Building 58 is an example of the multiple-use structures erected at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard during World War II to acco... More

U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building Nos. 44-46, Baltimore, Independent Cit...

Significance: One of four original storage sheds erected in 1928, including #45, #46 & #47, of the same size and type. Survey number: HABS MD-1040-G Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction Nation... More

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Car Repair Shop, Six...

Significance: The building is a fine example of period vernacular architecture. / The building first appears on a 1953 map of the TCID; however, it is situated on the site of the grease rack shown on the 1937 C... More

U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 39, Baltimore, Independent City, M...

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U.S. Naval Air Station, Navy Yard Gate, South Avenue near intersection...

Significance: This gate is a fragment of the old Navy Yard built c. 1835. It was almost totally destroyed by Federal gunboats in 1862, and was probably modified during the 1870 reconstruction. Unprocessed Fie... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Rifled cannon in the Arsenal yard

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New Haven Rail Yard, Oil Storage Building, Vicinity of Union Avenue, N...

Significance: The Oil Storage Building is significant as an original component of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's ca. 1870 New Haven shops. At the time, the New Haven complex was the railroad's... More

Harvard College, Hollis Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Middlesex Count...

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Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 9, Between Piers 8 & 10, along Mystic Rive...

Significance: Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and Pier 9 occupies the site of one of the early wharfs at Charlestown Navy Yard. Originally known as Sh... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Freight & Rail Yard, Long Slip...

Significance: The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) Long Slip Canal contributes to the Old Main DL&W Railroad Heritage District. Long Slip was significant for its critical role in facilitating the... More

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Work Equipment Shop, Vicinity of Cedar & Lamberto...

Significance: The Work Equipment Shop recalls the increased investment in the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's facilities in the period immediately following World War II. In addition to this shop, ... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Work Equipment Shop, Vicinity of Cedar & Lamberto...

Significance: The Work Equipment Shop recalls the increased investment in the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's facilities in the period immediately following World War II. In addition to this shop, ... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 10, Between Piers 9 & 11 along Mystic Rive...

Significance: Pier 10 is one of four piers built at Charlestown Navy Yard in the decade prior to World War I. Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and occu... More

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Unidentified man, arrested on suspicion of...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. This photograph has background of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, w... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Ropewalk & Tar House, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

See also HAER No. MA-90-2, Ropewalk Significance: The Ropewalk (Building 58) and the Tar House (Building 60) were the principal structures in the Charlestown Navy Yard's rope manufacturing complex. From 1838 t... More

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) Railroad, Bellmead Yard, Car Foreman's ...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Car Foreman's Office is situated on a slight promontory that provides unobstructed views of the entire Bellmead Yard, which serviced steam locomotives and switched rolling... More

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

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

Barn yard song - Public domain American sheet music 1870-1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 8, Corner of Billard & Shoemaker A...

Significance: Erected at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard during World War II to accommodate the needs of heavy industry, Building 8 is an example of a multiple-use structure influenced by early 20th-century internati... More

[Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot and yard; Trout House and Masonic Hall in...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Broadway Bridge, Spanning Foundry Street, MBTA Yard, Fort Point Channe...

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Broadway Bridge, Spanning Foundry Street, MBTA Yard, Fort Point Channe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Birmingham Southern Railroad Yard, Thirty-fourth Street, Ensley, Jeffe...

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Interurban Electric Railway Bridge Yard Shop, Interstate 80 at Alameda...

Significance: The Interurban Electric Railway (IER) Bridge Yard Shop has been determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, significant under criteria A and C, as a rare survivi... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Civilian Quarters, Between East K Street ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-K Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Civilian Quarters, Between East K Street ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-K Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Navy Yard, Building No. 201, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...

Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More

Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...

Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) Railroad, Bellmead Yard, Fuel Storage B...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Navy Yard, Main Gate, Eighth & M Streets Southeast, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Surviving portion of an early 19th-Century Navy Yard structure designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Survey number: HABS DC-100 Building/structure dates: ca. 1805 Initial Construction Building/s... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Small Stores Building, Vicinity of Union Avenue, ...

Significance: The Small Stores Building is significant as a component of the New Haven Railroad's repair and maintenance facilities. It was built to provide safe storage for acetylene, a potentially explosive ... More

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Machine Shop, Sixth ...

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

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Machine Shop, Sixth ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Machine Shop, Sixth ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Charleston, S.C. Blakely guns and ammunition in the Arsenal yard]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Mountaineers and farmers eating dinner served for benefit of the churc...

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

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Pier No. 6, Erie Lackawanna R...

Significance: The remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Pier No. 6: Grain Trestle are significant because of the information they provide about grain and coal loading techniques of a major ra... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Pier No. 6, Erie Lackawanna R...

Significance: The remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Pier No. 6: Grain Trestle are significant because of the information they provide about grain and coal loading techniques of a major ra... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Central Power Plant, Attached to northeast end ...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: Building 108 was originally buil... More

Greenville Yard, Transfer Bridge System, Port of New York/New Jersey, ...

Significance: The Greenville Yard Transfer Bridge System is the last surviving example in New York Harbor of a suspended-type car float transfer bridge. The innovative design of the transfer bridge was introdu... More

Greenville Yard, Transfer Bridge System, Port of New York/New Jersey, ...

Significance: The Greenville Yard Transfer Bridge System is the last surviving example in New York Harbor of a suspended-type car float transfer bridge. The innovative design of the transfer bridge was introdu... More

Greenville Yard, Transfer Bridge System, Port of New York/New Jersey, ...

Significance: The Greenville Yard Transfer Bridge System is the last surviving example in New York Harbor of a suspended-type car float transfer bridge. The innovative design of the transfer bridge was introdu... More

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

U. S. Frigate Constitution, (Old Ironsides) ready for launching after ...

Photograph shows individuals, on long gang plank, leaving the U. S. Frigate Constitution; crew standing on top deck. Photograph was probably taken by Albert Gregory of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and rephotograph... More

Mare Island California Navy Yard, Friday, February 19, 1864 (Drawing)

Execution of the conspirators, Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Powell, (Al...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after sketch by D.B. Gulick & W.T. Crane. Size 2 15/16 x 4 15/16. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 512 (186... More

Big Sandy River, West Virginia. and Ky.--Lock at Louisa, Ky.--View of ...

Stone masons working at construction site of a lock on the Big Sandy River at Louisa, Kentucky, with derrick moving stone blocks. No. 418.

Monitors in ordinary at League Island Navy Yard

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Castle yard, Wartburg, Thuringia, Germany] view, photochrome print po...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1676". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

Marine band at Brooklyn Navy Yard

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U.S.S. Chicago at Brooklyn Navy Yard

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

Making flags, Brooklyn Navy Yard

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U-Boat at Navy Yard - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

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

[N.O. (New Orleans?) naval supply yard, Gulfport, Mississippi]

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Stern plate of U.S.S. Olympia, Boston Navy Yard

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

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

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

Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts.

Postcard shows sailing ship pulling a skiff in front of the Navy yard buildings and ships docked at piers. F34782 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7027a.

Peace Conference building. Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1905

Printed on card: Copyright applied for by H. Pearson. Postcard sent by newspaper correspondent Edmund Noble to his wife, Lydia. Text reads: Dear Ma, August 18, 1905. Peace not yet certainly in sight. Still hop... More

Nice! repeated Uncle Abey. She's fine. All silk and a yard wide

Variant title on verso: East side politician, New York. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "In Loco Parentis" by Myra Kelly, McClure's magaz... More

Portsmouth, N.H. Navy Yard - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Dick Hibbard Brick Yard, Kearney, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of the naval stores bldgs., Charleston Navy [Naval] Yard, Charlest...

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Bremerton Navy Yard views, Panoramic Photograph

J186129 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Frank H. Nowell; October 4, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44678. Sections of photo numbered left to right: 12001; 1200[...]; 2093; and 12010.

Sailors at play, Brooklyn Navy Yard

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NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. HYDRAULIC RAM, USED IN MAKING C.C.

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Hot Springs, Ark. (1920), left to right: William A. Pinkerton, Inspect...

Photograph shows the three men in front of a log cabin with the sign "Our Summer Home" over the cabin door. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:... More

Navy Yard apprentice group, 9/19/21

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[Navy Secretary Edwin Denby and staff touring Washington Navy Yard, in...

#17226. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Arms...; Navy, US 1921; DC, Wash.... More

[Ship yard] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Sec. Wilbur inspecting Sub V-1 at Navy Yard, 12/3/24

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Rocky Mount Lumber Co. Construction of portable house two at Johnson &...

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View of dedication of New Post Office Department. A general view showi...

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Mrs. Reginald Mead, wife of Lt. Mead, U.S.N. [...td], wore this red ve...

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Railroad yard at Williamson, West Virginia

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A couple of men standing next to a car. Great Depression FSA photogpra...

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An old black and white photo of a man working on a machine, West Virgi...

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A black and white photo of a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Back yard of an abandoned house at 20th an...

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Front of new home of project family. He is building a gate for front y...

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Farmhouse of small farmer near Santa Rosa, Texas. Tractor and rusting ...

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Copper mine in miner's back yard, Butte, Montana

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Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, a...

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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, ...

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