Corinth, Miss. Railroad depot & Tishomingo Hotel
Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly wo...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862 July 12, p. 448. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in cartoons 1862; CW, 1861-1865 C... More
22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 [i.e.186...
No. B1018. Date based on 22nd NY history. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
The Washington Arsenal. American Civil War photograph by Mathew Brady.
No. 671. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More
Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey
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Keedysville, Maryland (vicinity). Smith's barn, used as a hospital aft...
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Cumberland Landing, Virginia. City of tents. Encampment of the Army of...
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[François Bazaine and his wife, full-length portrait, standing]
On verso: Fotografia: Aubert y Cia. 2[superscript A] C. San Francisco, 7, Mexico. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, lower right. On mou... More
[Man holding a pocket auger] (Andrew J. Russel)
No. 82 (handwritten) and 2569 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More
H. Knox : from the original painting by Chappel in the possession of t...
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Petersburg, Virginia. Female Seminary, American Civil War Glass Negati...
Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Yorktown, Virginia. Both sections of Federal mortar battery No. 4
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A Thrilling scene in east Tennessee--Colonel Fry and the Union men swe...
Colonel David Fry and Union men grouped around American flag to pledge their allegiance to the Union, during plot to burn Confederate bridge, Tennessee. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 March 29, p. 193.
[Gilman Marston, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in uniform...
Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 4577. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Maj. General Wool. American Civil War 1861-1865.
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[From Maryland Heights at sunrise] during American Civil War
Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title devised from Harpers Weekly title. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 22, 1862, p. 741. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.399) Forms part of: Morgan collection... More
Faroese islanders - Public domain document scan of drawing
Drawing shows two Far"e islanders on a rowboat. One stands and pushes against rocks with a long pole while the other sits and rows. Taylor visited the Faroe Islands in 1862, perhaps en route to Russia. Gift; Ch... More
Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). Major (JM) Robertson's Battery of Horse...
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Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge across the Antietam. Northwest vie...
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The War in Virginia - rebuilding railway bridge over Goose Creek, near...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 May 10, p. 41. Reference copy in LOT 4420B.
Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Panoramic view from center of battlefield of...
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Group at Quartermaster General's office, Washington, D.C.
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[Confederate General William Joseph Hardee], Confederate States of Ame...
Title devised. Inscribed below image: Hardee. Formerly Waud no. B-153. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.917) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Harrisons landing - Public domain scan / drawing
Tents, and cannons covered with cloth. Title inscribed right margin. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.678) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
The campaign in Kentucky--The national troops under General Johnston a...
2 illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Jan. 18, p. 129.
Churchyard at Hampton - 19th century Virginia.
Photograph shows graveyard of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hampton, Virginia, with ruins of church in the background. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk'... More
Position of Union Army 30th June 10 1/2 a.m. and 2 1/2 p.m.
Concerns the Battle of Frazier's Farm, 30 June 1862, also known as the Battle of Glendale and the Battle of White Oak Swamp. It was one of the Seven Days' Battles, 26 June-1 July 1862. Includes the Confedera... More
Copy of a map military reconnaissance Dep't Va. : [Hampton Roads and N...
Map of the Hampton Roads vicinity showing Confederate fortifications/camps, settlements, city street patterns, roads, railroads, canals, streams, vegetation, and swamps. "Note--This map shows the positions of t... More
An officer of infantry, U.S.V. - Public domain portrait print
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.247) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Seeking for the wounded, by torch-light, after the battle
Print shows soldiers searching by torch-light through a wooded area for wounded soldiers after a Rebel assault on Schwartz's battery during the Union siege of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Illustration from: Harpe... More
Mansion of John E. Seabrook, Edisto Island, S.C.
Photograph shows two men, probably soldiers, posed in front of the Seabrook house with a third man off to the side in the garden. Title inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and... More
General Burndside [sic] visiting Gn. Franklin giving him the order to ...
Four officers (one standing, the rest seated) behind a campfire. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Franklin corps in the distance and Rebel batteries on the mountains. Formerly attributed to A... More
Sweet potato planting, Hopkinson's Plantation
Photograph shows slaves working in the sweet potato fields on the Hopkinson plantation. Title inscribed in ink on front of the mount. Date from similar photograph on mount at the New York Public Library. Capti... More
Map of the State of Virginia - Public domain old map
Scale ca. 1;887,040. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 465.45 General map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania showing cities and towns, roads, rivers, and relief by hachures. Th... More
[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men standing on ra...
No. 49 (handwritten) and 2548 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More
Antietam, Maryland. Field where Sumner's corps charged. Bodies of Conf...
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Brig. General B. F. Kelley, U.S.A. / Gutekunst. photographist.
Photograph shows Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Kelley, United States Army, in uniform, half-length portrait, facing left. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
Group, 22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 [...
Photograph shows non-commissioned staff Color Sergeant William Lamonby and Company Sergeant Thompson; Right Gen. Guide Wyckoff, Color Sergt. Geo. V.W. House; Lockwood; Sergt. Major Charles Walker; Left Gen. Gui... More
Henrico County, Virginia, 1862. - Public domain old map
Relief shown by hachures. Shows roads, railroads, rivers, houses, names of residents, and woodland. The map is based on James Keily's "Smith's map of Henrico County, Virginia" (Richmond, Robert P. Smith & C. Ca... More
English party at Rejkjavik - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a group of English visitors in Iceland examining two horses while Icelandic men and a boy stand in the background. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perhaps en route to Russia. Gift; Charles F. Hear... More
Officers of 14th U.S. Infantry, March, 1862
No. 973. Alternate title from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Gift; Col. Godwin ... More
[General view of the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee]
Twelve points of interest charted. Sketched by Dr. B. Howard. Illus in: Harper's Weekly, 1862, p. 419. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Tennessee; Shelf.
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Clark's house used a hospital for the r...
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Soldier's true friend, Holloway's ointment & pills / George Schlegel l...
Patent medicine label showing one man treating another man's wound. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.270) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Harper's Ferry gap
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[Composite of scenes of] Our cotton campaign in South Carolina - gathe...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862 Feb. 15, pp. 200-201. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397K. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Plantation... More
Colton's Virginia. Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Preliminary chart of Charleston Harbor and its approaches. nautical ch...
Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
General Irvin McDowell and staff at Arlington House, Virginia
Date from another copy of the print in LOT 13412, no. 3. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Sulphur Springs, Virginia (vicinity). Bridge over the north fork of th...
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Back view of Romney Hamilton Co. NC
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title, from left to right: First Virgini[a] Camp; The Seventh Virginia Detachment of the Third and Fourth Va. Camp; Hospital; E[a]st V... More
Hampton, Virginia. Ruins of old brick church. West end. (The oldest Pr...
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Southern "volunteers", Confederate States of America.
The print may have appeared soon after the Confederate Congress passed a national conscription act on April 16, 1862, to strengthen its dwindling army of volunteers. The artist characterizes regular Confederat... More
[John N. A. Griswold house (now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Is...
Sheet no. 6. Inscribed in pencil J. Griswold [?]. Stamp: This drawing to be returned. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The A... More
Some specimens of "Secesh" industry - intended for the London Exhibiti...
Images show: Goblet - made from a "Yankee's skull"; paperweight made from a "Yankee jaw bone"; reading desk made from a human skeleton; furs made from scalps and beards; necklace of "Yankee teeth"; head wreath ... More
Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge ...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 15, no. 367 (1862 Oct. 11), p. 33.
S.F. Dupont, Adm., U.S.N. - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card (copy of P&AGA catalog card). Associated name on shelflist card: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company, Cincinnati. P&AGA card tracings: Dupont, Samuel Franci... More
Genl. Shields at the battle of Winchester, Virginia 1862
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2516
181023-N-HP188-0047 RICHMOND, Va. (October 23, 2018)
181023-N-HP188-0047 RICHMOND, Va. (October 23, 2018) Erik Farrell and Will Hoffman, archaeological conservators from the Mariners’ Museum and Park located in Newport News capture measurements from a Dahlgren sm... More
[Dr. Alexander Harris of 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment in uniform an...
Photographs show identified Confederate soldier. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/SoldierbiosHarris.html Case: Berg, no. 1-14. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011;... More
[Charleston, S.C. Flag-raising ceremony, with Brevet Maj. General Robe...
Stereograph showing a crowd gathered at Fort Sumter to celebrate the raising of the American flag by General Anderson four years after it had been hauled down by the Confederates. Part of series: The War for t... More
Waldlandschaft mit Brücke - Adolf Chwala 1862
Deutsch: Waldlandschaft mit Brücke - Adolf Chwala 1862
The Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, April 6th & 7th, 1862 / J....
Music cover. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Public domain scan of an art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sketch of a group of Collis' Zouaves--General Banks bodyguard, now att...
"Officers & non-commissioned officers of Collis' Zouaves. General Banks' bodyguard. Camp Pardee, near Upperville, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.19) Forms part of: Morgan collection ... More
Remains of burnt steamers & sailing vessels on the Rappahanock [sic]
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.15) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Hanami no en - Public domain drawing
Ukiyo-e diptych showing richly-dressed man, two children, and two women in a richly-appointed interior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06... More
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
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Southward from the university steeple. Troy N.Y.
Penciled on front of mount: 460. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, date, number (44), and negative (tannin). Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. Forms part of... More
[Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.
[Letter from J. Hartwell Keyes to Diantha from Halls Hill, Virginia, o...
Handwritten letter from Private John Hartwell Keyes of Co. F, 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, on pictorial lettersheet showing Lincoln and McClellan reviewing the Army of the Potomac. Caption on print: R... More
[Manassas, Virginia Confederate fortifications, with Federal soldiers]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.
[Centreville, Virginia Confederate winter quarters] - 19th century Vir...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.
Centreville, Virginia. Grigsby house, headquarters of General Joseph E...
Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the ri...
Soldiers resting, and firing guns on the banks of the Potomac. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. Inscribed upper left: 1st [illegible inscription] Gift, J.P. Mo... More
Dogs, pots & cucumbers for sale. Moscow
Drawing shows an outdoor market in Moscow. A beleagered man in top hat and long coat, perhaps Taylor himself, tries to fend off three vendors: one holds dogs by the scruff of their necks, another offers a small... More
Confederate soldier, who, after being wounded, had dragged himself to ...
Photograph shows a dead Confederate soldier lying on his back in a little ravine on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 554. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Al... More
Photographer at Manassas, July 1862 during American Civil War
Photograph shows a portable photographer's darkroom on wheels and possibly Timothy O'Sullivan standing next to it. (Source: Stereograph of similar image at the New York Historical Society). No. 651. Alternate ... More
[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Secret Service men at Foller's House]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
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Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey
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Expedients for crossing streams (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph showing two blanket boats in midground. No. 17 (handwritten) and 2518 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere ... More
Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia / negative by D.B. ...
Photograph by D.B. Woodbury and Alexander Gardner, for the Mathew B. Brady Studio. Copyright by A. Gardner. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Phil... More
[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. Headquarters of General George B. McCle...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Yorktown, Virginia. Street view - 19th century Virginia.
Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
[John N. A. Griswold house (now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Is...
Inscribed in pencil J. Griswold [?]. Notation on verso: HWM1.1.3. Also: P.50. Floor plan sketch on verso, also small detail sketch. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ;... More
Catlett's Station on the Orange & Alex. R.R. / E Forbes.
Illustration with key, showing: 1. Road to Fredericksburg, Va., on which Genl. McDowell's army marched ; 2. Genl. Ord's headquarters ; 3. Catlett's Station ; 4. Freight house ; 5. Orange & Alexandria R.R. Gift,... More
A sutler's tent near H.Q.. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Detailed sketch of the interior of a sutler's tent, with several full-length portraits of unidentified officers drinking at a bar in the foreground. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Aug 1862. ... More