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Yorktown, Virginia. Fortifications - 19th century Virginia.

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Yorktown, Virginia. View of ravine, where a large number of Confederat...

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Yorktown, Virginia. View from Cornwallis cave

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[Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity)]. Servants at Prince de Joinville's qua...

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["York Hall," Captain George Preston Blow house, Route 1005 and Main ...

Site History. House Architecture: Griffin & Wynkoop, for Captain George Preston Blow, additions to 18th century brick house, the home of Thomas Nelson Jr., 1738-1739, after purchase by Blow in 1914. Landscape: ... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 and Main St., Yorktown, York County, Virgi...

Alternate title: Nelson House. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1740-1741. Related names: Mrs. George Blow. Built by Wm. Nelson. His son Thomas was a Signer, also a general in the ... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 and Main St., Yorktown, York County, Virgi...

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York Hall, State Route 1005 and Main St., Yorktown, York County, Virgi...

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Kirk Wilkinson, residence on Baptist Church Rd., Yorktown Heights, New...

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Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, headquarters of General Cornwallis

J287274 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16544. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman smo...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Delaware County Bridge No. 131, County Route 750 Spanning White River,...

Significance: The White River Bridge on Delaware County Road 750W was fabricated and constructed by the Indiana Bridge Co. of Muncie, Indiana in 1897. Its 199'-10" span is the longest in Delaware County. The ... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Water battery - 19th century Virginia.

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Battery no. 4, near Yorktown, Virginia / negative by Wood & Gibson ; p...

Soldier standing guard outside earthen bunker at mortar battery. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 14. Ale... More

Colonial Parkway, Navy Mine Depot, Spanning Naval Weapons Road, Yorkto...

Significance: As one of the first two completed structures on the Colonial Parkway, the Navy Mine Depot Overpass employed the characteristic colonial brickwork and reinforced concrete arch design indicative of ... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). A two-gun Confederate battery protected...

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Ballentine House, Main Street (moved from Newtown vicinity), Yorktown,...

Significance: This house has many interesting interior parts taken from a dismantled late eighteenth-century house. Reused fabric includes the bricks, laid in Felmish bond and set in Portland cement mortar; the... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. Topographical engineers, Camp Winfield ...

Photo shows a group of nine men posed in front of a tent with a surveying instrument at left. The two men seated center and right are most likely Frederick W. Door and John W. Donn. The officer seated to the le... More

West House, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS VA-82 Building/structure dates: ca. 1706 Initial Construction

West House, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS VA-82 Building/structure dates: ca. 1706 Initial Construction

Sheild House, Pearl & Main Streets, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-82 Survey number: HABS VA-81 Building/structure dates: ca. 1699 Initial Construction

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Practice Bomb Storehouse, Yorktown Boul...

Significance: This building was associated with the training function of the Naval Air Station on Ford Island during World War II. The practice bombs stored here were used to train air crews in aerial bombing.... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...

No. B588. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Swan Tavern, Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

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Swan Tavern, Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

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York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, VA

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Yorktown, Virginia. Water battery - 19th century Virginia.

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[Yorktown, Virginia Federal wagon park] - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Moore house, Yorktown, Virginia / negative by Wood & Gibson ; positive...

Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 15. Similar unbound view in LOT 4165-G. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1... More

The Nelson House Yorktown used as a hospital by the rebels

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 24, 1862, pp. 328-9. Sketch of fortifications on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.73) Forms part of: Morg... More

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Virginia Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Glou...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, ... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Yorktown Battlefield Tour Roads, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-77. Significance: Following both existing roads and historic road traces, the nearly nine miles of battlefield tour roads provide for visitor access to significant... More

George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge, Spanning York River at U.S. Route 1...

Significance: The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge is a 3,750-foot, steel deck-truss structure comprised of plate girder approach spans, a series of cantilevered fixed spans, and two center-pivot swing spans w... More

Yorktown - Public domain image of steamship

Sidewheeler using steam as auxiliary power, showing men with crates of tobacco marked "P.B." (Paulin Byrd). LOT subdivision subject: Ships (clipper and steam). Title and other information transcribed from capti... More

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...

No. B141. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, page 371. Hand written on verso from an unidentified source: Confederate Battery at Yorktown which fired upon the Federal Balloonist and upon which "Balloon Bry... More

Great siege train at Yorktown, Virginia

Rows of mortars and field guns in foreground. Stereo half by Brady, #2358. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Civil War, 1861-1865.

The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va.

Shows fortifications on opposite sides of the Warwick River, with the Confederate forces concentrated to the north of the river and the Union forces to the south around Lee's Mill.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group. T. Anderson, Esq. Lt. Colonel F...

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Yorktown, Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson house in background used...

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Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery with McClellan's No. 1 mortar ...

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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Servants of officers of staff. (The "Be...

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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group of contrabands at Allen's farm ho...

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Yorktown harbor, Yorktown, Virginia - Public domain image. Dry plate n...

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IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

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["York Hall," Captain George Preston Blow house, Route 1005 and Main...

Site History. House Architecture: Griffin & Wynkoop, for Captain George Preston Blow, additions to 18th century brick house, the home of Thomas Nelson Jr., 1738-1739, after purchase by Blow in 1914. Landscape: ... More

Grace Church, York-Hampton Parish, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

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Paul Cottage, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Related names: Mrs. Chenowith. Restoration. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-100. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Bellfield Cemetery, Digges Road vicinity, Yorktown, York County, Virgi...

Survey number: HABS VA-918 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Capitol paintings. George Washington with British soldiers at Yor...

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Kirk Wilkinson, residence on Baptist Church Rd., Yorktown Heights, New...

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Old Croton Aqueduct, Entrance Entablature, New Croton Reservoir, Yorkt...

Significance: The Old Croton Aqueduct is an outstanding example of 19th century civil engineering and was New York City's first municipal water project. The entrance entablature commemorated the opening of the... More

Archer House, Lot No. 123, Water Street, Yorktown, York County, Virgin...

Significance: The Archer House, on Lot 107, is currently the only visible structure on the Yorktown waterfront with colonial associations. The fire of 1814 has been assumed to have destroyed the house but short... More

Archer House, Lot No. 123, Water Street, Yorktown, York County, Virgin...

Significance: The Archer House, on Lot 107, is currently the only visible structure on the Yorktown waterfront with colonial associations. The fire of 1814 has been assumed to have destroyed the house but short... More

[Yorktown, Virginia Augustine Moore house, in which Lord Cornwallis si...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Colonial Parkway, Navy Mine Depot, Spanning Naval Weapons Road, Yorkto...

Significance: As one of the first two completed structures on the Colonial Parkway, the Navy Mine Depot Overpass employed the characteristic colonial brickwork and reinforced concrete arch design indicative of ... More

Hofherr Round Barn, County Road 650 West, Yorktown, Delaware County, I...

Significance: This round barn was designed and built by Martin Luther Hofherr in 1904 to house and feed the farm's draft horses. Since then, the farm has remained in the Hofherr family and is now owned by Grac... More

[Portrait photographs of soldiers and servants from various Union head...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 359, no. 444, no. 349, no. 428, no. 366, and no. 387. Exhibit loan 4116-L.

View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] hous...

Photograph shows aerial view of the fortifications along the York River with the fleet in the distance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 361. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibso... More

View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] hous...

Photograph shows aerial view of the fortifications along the York River with the fleet in the distance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 361. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibso... More

West House, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS VA-82 Building/structure dates: ca. 1706 Initial Construction

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery Magruder with 8-inch Columbiad...

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Sheild House, Pearl & Main Streets, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-82 Survey number: HABS VA-81 Building/structure dates: ca. 1699 Initial Construction

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, Saratoga B...

Significance: Facility No. 78 was built in 1940 as part of the development of housing facilities for the Naval Air Station at Ford Island in the period preceding World War II. Facility No. 78 provided housing ... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery...

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Gen'l. George B. McClellan and staff, before Yorktown, Virginia, April...

Full-length portrait, on horseback, facing right, holding up sword. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2500.

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate Battery with 8-inch Columbiads

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York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

George D. Sheldon to Anson Stager, Sunday, May 04, 1862 (Telegram rep...

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

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Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Glou...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, ... More

Yorktown, Virginia / McIlvaine. - A painting of a farm scene with a fu...

Moonlight scene of Yorktown with wagons, campfire, and soldiers near ruins and a grave. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More

Colonial Parkway, Yorktown to Jamestown Island, Yorktown, York County,...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-74. Significance: The establishment of the Colonial Parkway in the 1930s made the historic sites at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown more accessible to the ev... More