The South New steamship line between Boston and Savannah. The splendid...
Transportation.; Handwritten on verso: 3 Dec. 1860. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfol... More
Geo Peabody - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of sidewheel steamship under waigh. Signed lower left of image: WTC. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso [and covered by paper on which image is mounted]: Steamer Geo. Peabody running... More
[American steam packet vessel at port in Le Havre, France] / Auguste L...
Photograph shows American commercial ship with American flag flying from foremast and commercial flag flying from mainmast. Ship was formerly identified as U.S.S. Kearsarge. Date based on years Lacroix and Aut... More
[Broadside views of three steamships]
Title devised. Inscribed below first image: U.S. Transport "Roanoke." Inscribed below the second image: U.S. GunBoat "Winfield Scott." The "Union" is the same style as the Scott. Inscribed below third image: 2 ... More
The great eastern excursion! This mammoth steamship, the wonder of the...
Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204, Folder 3.
[Steamship with three masts] - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.107) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Baltic and Atlantic - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0342) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Dirijo [sic], wrecker - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of steamship, sailor rowing longboat in foreground; detail of rigging left of image. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: [zw-b-e/ L[t] Canadian?]. Inscribed below title... More
U.S. Steamer - Public domain drawing
Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: Coast [survey?]. Formerly Waud no. C-40. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.967) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil ... More
Nipsic - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: Spars reddish color. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.95) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Transport "Gove[r]nor" - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-49. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.976 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Transport Marion - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: See about this and the Florida. Formerly Waud no. C-53. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.980 verso) Forms part... More
Saxonia - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of bow detail at right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.101) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Transport "Cahawba", Library of Congress drawings collection
Broadside view sidewheel steamship.
The U.S. steamer Search. - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.109) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Revenue cutter - Public domain document scan of drawing
Sketch of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Revenue Cutter Service was forerunner of Coast Guard. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.47). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[Sketches of four ships] - Public domain document scan of drawing
Title devised. Ships identified: Steamer Edsall; Cambridge; Torpedo boat Stromboli. Inscribed above Steamer Edsall: Grey. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.345) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More
Susquehannah - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside sketch of the steamship Susquehannah. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: sketch-over-. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.86) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[Broadside views of the Whitehead, Cohasset, and Young America]
Title devised and inscribed below images. Formerly Waud no. C-118. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1045) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Gun Boat Montecello - Public domain document scan of drawing
Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-45. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.972) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Transport "Great Republic" in tow of the Vanderbilt (Clipper rig)
Broadside view frigate. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-55. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.982 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Tug Boat "Mercury", Library of Congress drawings collection
Broadside view of sidewheel steamship.
U.S. Transport "Star of the South"
Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.244) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
U.S. Sloop "Pensacola" - A black and white photo of a ship in the wate...
Photograph showing Civil War vessel in harbor, near dock. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Ship deck with sailors and cannons]
Photograph possibly by George H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tid... More
[U.S.S. Casco, light draft monitor, in the James River]
Title devised by library staff. See also: LOT 4182, no. 76. Gift; George Holmes; July 26, 1941.
U.S. gunboat Lexington [i.e. Tyler] - Mississippi River Fleet
Photograph shows a Union timberclad, the U.S.S. Tyler. No. 3122. Cited in Miller, vol. I, p. 203, as the U.S.S. Tyler. "U.S. Army Military History Institute also identifies it as (U.S.S) Tyler" inscribed on ve... More
U.S. gunboat Tyler - Mississippi River Fleet
Photograph shows a Union timberclad, the U.S.S. Tyler. No. 3127. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. I, p. 189". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Starboard Battery of Pawnee, American Civil War Glass Negative.
Title from negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photograp... More
The steamship Marion, on her way to New York with the wives and childr...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 23, p. 212.
Starboard Battery of Pawnee, American Civil War Glass Negative.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Three U.S. Navy ships, from left, the Macedonian, the Dale, and the S...
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Submarine Infernal machine intended to destroy the "Minnesota"
A submarine and a sailing ship. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 253 (1861 Nov. 2), p. 701.
The steamship Star of the West, with reinforcements for Major Anderson...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 269 (1861 Jan. 19), pp. 136-137. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416-E (1861). Caption card... More
U.S.S. Pawnee - A drawing of a boat in the water
No. 4940. Mounted with four other photographs and one other print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Steamship Planter, White House Landing, Pamunkey River
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 and salt, w... More
Hospital ship, Nashville, gelatin silver print
Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Mendota, James River, Virginia during American Civil War
No. B203. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arrival of the United States steam sloop Niagara at Jeddo, Japan, with...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
U.S. steam gun boat "Chippewa" - Public domain image of a steam ship o...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Shearman & Hart. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y.
Potomac River, Sept. 31st, 1861
Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Signed upper left: Wau[d] Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image and crossed out: "Putnam" and "Lockwood." Formerly Waud no. C-113 Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP... More
[Ironclad USS Essex at Baton Rouge, Louisiana]
Probably photographed by McPherson & Oliver. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie, La., 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War... More
Burning of the steamship "Golden Gate" :July 27. 1862
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Capture of Fort Henry by U.S. gun boats under the command of Flag Offi...
Print shows four Union ironclads in the foreground, identified as the "St. Louis", "Carondelet", "Cincinnati", and the "Essex", bombarding Confederate Fort Henry in the background; also shows two Confederate st... More
U.S. Steam Transport Mississippi[sic], engraving, Library of Congress
Broadside view of steam frigate. Signed lower right: Lars Everding. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: May 24th 1862. Source unknown.
A torpedo exploding under the "Montauk," in the Ogeechee River [Dest]r...
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The English pirate ALEXANDRA seized by the British government at Liver...
Ship at dock. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 June 6, p. 364. Reference copy may be in LOT 4248. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gt. Britain Eng. Liverpool 1... More
[Washington, District of Columbia]. Brazilian Steam Frigate at Navy Ya...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The Rebel privateer Florida chasing the schooner Laura Ann, about 400 ...
Illus. from: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9. Public domain photograph - engraving of a sailing ship, sea battle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gunboat Tyler, where W.W. Stuart served during the Civil War
Photograph shows timberclad steamer gunboat USS Tyler with crew on deck. Tax stamp on verso. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photograph... More
U.S.S. Niagara, Boston, Massachusetts., Sept., 1863
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hampton Roads, Virginia. School ship U.S.S. SABINE
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The captured Rebel privateer "Florida" and the United States steamer "...
Wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hampton Roads, Virginia (vicinity). U.S.S. MALVERN
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The ship GLAD TIDINGS, with a cargo of American Cotton, entering the p...
Reference copy may be available in Lot 4426-B. Illus. in: "The Illustrated London News", 4 Nov. 1865, p.449. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.... More
The President's funeral car, on a steam lighter, approacing New York, ...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865 May 13. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Kazalinsk. Pristan aral'skoi flotilii
Photograph shows a steam-powered paddle wheel boat with Russian naval personnel on board. In the background, a boat along the shore and two others under construction. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtn... More
Steamship GOLDEN CITY, San Francisco, California, 19th century steresc...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 312. LOT subdivision subject: Ships and River Steamers. This record contains unverified old data f... More
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...
Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Flag ship, LANCASTER, U.S. Navy, California, 19th century sterescope c...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 327. LOT subdivision subject: USS Lancaster. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
Steamship SACRAMENTO, San Francisco, California, 19th century steresco...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
View of the Shipping from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 548. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Waterfront. This record contains unverified old data f... More
The delta of the Mississippi: Scene at southwest bar
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Nov 9. Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
The City and port of Vera Cruz, Mexico
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Aug. 10, p. 500. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Three illustrations of ships and icebergs]
Illus. in: The Polar World, The Arctic Seas, New York, 1869, pp. 46 & 47. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - ARCTIC REGIONS. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arctic Reg... More
The recent accident on the Mississippi Central Railroad / from a sketc...
Five illustrations: Accident on the Mississippi Central Railroad, near Oxford, Mississippi. Head-and-shoulders portraits of Lieut. Commander W.L. Stewart; Commander E.H. Williams; and Lieut. Commander A.W. Muld... More
[U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail]
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Ship locked in ice - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a ship with three masts locked in ice. Several figures stand before it. Formerly DRWG/US - Gedney - 89. Title inscribed on verso. Gift, Ralph Gedney 1926 (DLC/PP-1926:R47019).
U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail
Wood engraving from: Harper's New Monthly, v. 44, 1872. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Scenes of the great Red River raft - 1873
Photograph showing the steam snag boat, US AID, clearing logjam in the Red River, Louisiana. In album: Photographic views of Red River raft, made in April & May, 1873, under directions of C.W. Howell, Capt. Co... More
Photographic copy of lithograph,"The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du...
Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Spanish butchery wood engraving, Library of Congress
American naval response to the Spanish attack on the steamer Virginius during the Cuban Insurrection of 1868-1878. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1873 Nov. 29, p. 1061.
[La Crosse, Wisc. 1873] - Public domain vintage map
Print showing La Crosse, Wisconsin from vantage point on the Mississippi River with the "Belle of La Crosse" steamboat at dock and a steam "Transfer Boat" the "Alex. McGregor" with two barges on the river, also... More
Winslow Homer - Ship-building, Gloucester Harbor / drawn by Winslow Ho...
Print shows children building model ships in the foreground at a shipyard while men build a ship in the background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 17, no. 876 (1873 October 11), p. 900.
Sailing of the "Pennsylvania" / F.H.S., engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows the S.S. Pennsylvania steamship on its initial trial voyage on May 5, 1873, sailing under steam through waters crowded with small sailboats, tugboats, and other steamboats; shows many passengers onb... More
The discovery of Greenland wood engraving, Library of Congress
Illustration shows a Viking ship surrounded by whales and icebergs. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 19, (1875 Sept. 25), p. 780.
Scene on a New York dock--Stevedores unloading a ship / drawn by I.P. ...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 21, no. 1072 (1877 July 14), p. 540.
North Carolina. The steamship "Metropolis," wrecked in a gale off Cur...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1878 Feb. 16, p. 413.
Restless - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Olivette, Plant S.S. line, Havana
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "Southern Express Company" on ship's flag. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05901. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Valiant - Public domain image of steamship
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The port of Rumeli Hisarı] - Public domain image of steamship
Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. No. 685. In album: Views of the Bosporus and Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of... More
[The Imperial Yacht Teşrifiye] - Public domain image of a steam ship o...
Several men, some in uniform, lined up on side of moored boat bearing a Ottoman flag. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 1. No. 56. In album: Ships, Black Sea life... More
[The German ships "Kaiser" and "Hohenzollern" in front of the Dolmabah...
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[The Ship Kadıköy] - Public domain image of a steam boat
Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Title translated from album caption. No. 31. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval personnel and facilities, Turkey, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul... More
[The imperial ironclad frigate called by the imperial name Hamidiye, b...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. No. 611. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More
[Imperial steamship Izzeddin near the Dolmabahc̜e Sarayı (palace)]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[The Imperial Frigate Hamidiye] during American Civil War
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 1. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More
Navarch - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Polly. Warship photograph collection
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S.S. Yantic - Public domain image of steamship
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Str. E.P. Wilbur - Public domain image of steamship
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigates Hamidiye, Osmaniye and Aziziye seen fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 24. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More
Ocean liners: Saxonia, Cunard Line
Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigates Hamidiye, Osmaniye and Aziziye seen du...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 23. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More
Melissa - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat
Public domain photograph of a steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Olivette, Plant S.S. line, Havana
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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
[County of Roxburgh] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description