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U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III pilots, assigned

U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III pilots, assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, conduct a pre-mission brief before a local sortie at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., Dec. 13, 2019. The 16th AS is one of three a... More

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III is doused by

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III is doused by fire trucks at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., to celebrate U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Kenneth Rossa's, 437th Operations Group Superintendent, fini flight o... More

Members of the 16th Airlift Squadron conduct a preflight

Members of the 16th Airlift Squadron conduct a preflight briefing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., June 30, 2015. The history of the 16th Airlift Squadron dates back to its inception on Nov. 20, 1940. (U.S. Air ... More

Haley Kinarg holds a bird during the Earth Day Celebration

Haley Kinarg holds a bird during the Earth Day Celebration at Joint Base Charleston - Air Base, March 28. More than 1000 students attended the 16th Annual Earth Day Celebration. The celebration has interactive ... More

The Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the Fre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The only independent Huguenot church in the United States, it was built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White. Prote... More

Cemetery at the Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Churc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The only independent Huguenot church in the United States, it was built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White. Prote... More

A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts : 1st, t...

Shows coastal area from North Carolina to Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Charles Town. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

A new mapp of Carolina - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

New map of Carolina Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Charles-town, capitale de la Caroline - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventh...

Easy Chair, 18th century

Made in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Easy Chair, 18th century

Plan of the city of New York ; An exact prospect of Charlestown : the ...

New York City map shows streets, wharves, ferries, principal buildings, and built-up area. Charleston view is panorama of waterfront and quays with principal buildings lettered for identification (no index pres... More

An exact prospect of Charlestown, the metropolis of the province of So...

Print shows a view of the waterfront at Charleston harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, with several ships and small boats in the harbor and men, some with fishing nets, standing on a bit of land in the lower le... More

A view of Charles Town the capital of South Carolina in North America ...

Print shows ships in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, with distant view of the city in the background. Title from item. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Str... More

A proclamation: Whereas the enemy have invaded this state, and now occ...

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated, in black ink, in lower right marg... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct ... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Charleston Harbor in 1776

A map of Charleston Harbor as it appeared in 1776.

Sergeant Jasper, fort Moultrie

Sergeant William Jasper raises the fallen regimental flag over Fort Moultrie on June 28, 1776.

Carolina septentrionale et meridionale en 4 feuilles, traduite de l'An...

Scale ca. 1:560,000. Alternate title: An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, s... More

Various plans and draughts of cities, towns, harbours &c.

Plan de la barre et du havre de Charles-Town d'après un plan anglois l...

Scale ca. 1:45,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows points of defense. Oriented with north to the right. "No. 2." "No. 1 et 2. Ensemble." Includes sailing "Instruction."... More

A plan of the town, bar, harbour, and environs of Charlestown in South...

Scale ca. 1:45,000. Title from engraved copy issued by William Faden in 1780. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America... More

A sketch of the operations before Charlestown, the capital of South Ca...

Scale ca. 1:11,800. Hand colored. Includes descriptive index and inset "Charlestown Harbour," ca. 1:430,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A sketch of the operations before Charlestown, the capital of South Ca...

Scale ca. 1:11,800. Hand colored. Includes descriptive index and inset of "Charlestown harbour," ca. 1:430,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1554 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site ... More

[Plan d'Amboy. Vues de la rade de Charles-Town et de Fort Sulivan, mai...

Scale ca. 1:25,600. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' List of maps of America. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. The view of Charleston Harbor concerns the assault on Fort Sulivan during the siege of Charl... More

A sketch of the operations before Charlestown the capital of South Car...

In 1780, the British tried to capture Charleston, South Carolina again. This chart depicts the six-week siege that forced American troops to surrender on May 12, 1780. This was the largest surrender of American... More

Charles-Town, capitale de la Caroline.

Scale ca. 1:12,500. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1540 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1

Plan de la ville de Charlestown, de ses retranchements et du siege fai...

Scale ca. 1:10,320. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1

Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina under command of H...

Scale ca. 1:11,500. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Shows detailed lines of fire for defenders and besiegers. Ships shown pictorially. On verso: Siege of Charles Town, ... More

A sketch of the environs of Charlestown in South Carolina

A sketch of the environs of Charlestown in South Carolina.

[The Investiture of Charleston, S.C. by the English army, in 1780. Wit...

Scale ca. 1:17,500. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1559 ... More

Sketch of the harbour of Charles Town

Scale ca. 1:166,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermark. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1550 Available also through the Library o... More

Plan von dem Haven und der Gegend von Charles Town in South Carolina ....

Scale ca. 1:250,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Depths shown by soundings. Shows location of batteries, guard houses, etc. Includes "Explication." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1567 Availabl... More

George Abbott Hall, December 31, 1784, Table of Imports and Exports fr...

Table of Imports and Exports from Charleston, South Carolina, 1757 to 1763

In the Society of the Cincinnati, established in the State of South-Ca...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. 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 172, Folder 10.

General exports from the port of Charleston, South-Carolina, from Nove...

Imprint 2. 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 172, Folder 11a.

20 tracts, Charleston. Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum in Charleston Township, Tioga County (Pa.). Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. Title from label affixed to verso. ... More

Ichnography of Charleston, South-Carolina : at the request of Adam Tun...

Scale 1:4,800; 400 ft. to 1 in. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Published 1st Jan'y 1790 by E. Petrie, No. 13 America Square." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster im... More

Thomas Jefferson to Charleston, South Carolina, Postmaster, November 9...

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

Daniel Ravenel House, 68 Broad St., Charleston, Charleston County, Sou...

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: Dr. R.B. Rhett. Built by Daniel Ravenel. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)19. Credit line: Carnegie Survey o... More

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

Sunset view of Fort Sumter before the bombardment [1861]

Engraving by N. Orr [?] of drawing by H. Fenn. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Civil War Forts Sumter 1861; Shelf.

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

North eastern view of Charleston with north eastern rail road

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Keenan, Wm.

Thomas Ratcliffe House, 24 George Street, Charleston, Charleston Count...

Survey number: HABS SC-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

William Blacklock House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related name: E.H. Jantz. Built by Wm. Blacklock. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)12. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the... More

Member of Congress. William Loughton Smith The importance of this city...

Political campaign.; Smith, William Loughton.; Imprint 2. 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; Po... More

Packet boat grounded for tarring beside wharf--Men and wagon in foregr...

John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress).

Office of the agents of trustees Bank of the United States. Charleston...

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 172, Folder 28a.

View of a street in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with a chu...

Title devised by Library staff. Includes puncture holes along sides and bottom where paper was fastened to a board. Watermark: AMIES & Co; also a dove with olive branch on the left margin. Philadelphia Print Sh... More

[Detail view of cupola, pediment, and frieze of a large public buildin...

St. Michaels Church, Charleston, S.C.

Shocking earthquakes Charleston, (S. C.) Feb. 7, 1812. Yesterday morni...

Verse.; Earthquake- Charleston S.C.; Imprint 2. 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 49... More

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, possibly looking north toward Sul...

Drawing shows in lower left the figure of a man walking along the shoreline and a larger preliminary sketch of the man, also to the right of the man is a preliminary sketch of a woman walking to the right carry... More

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, perhaps looking southwest, showin...

Title devised by Library staff. Preliminary sketches of human figures on verso. Includes a remarque at lower left center of sheet showing the figure of a man in a rowboat. Watermark: AMIES. Philadelphia Print S... More

[Perspective view of Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina, with ...

Title from item. Watermark: AMIES & Co; also a dove with olive branch on the right margin. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 99. (DLC/PP-1995:140.99). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library o... More

[View of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with homes and outbui...

Title devised by Library staff. Preliminary sketch on verso. Trimed to inside the puncture holes that were around the edges where paper was fastened to a board. Watermark: AMIES. Forms part of: John Rubens Smit... More

A view taken from the S.W. end of Charleston, S.C. Jany 17th 1812

Title from item. Preliminary sketches of human figures on verso. Watermark: AMIES. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 90. (DLC/PP-1995:140.90). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

[View of the city of Charleston, S.C., with a mansion, the Nathaniel R...

Title devised by Library staff. Includes puncture holes around edges where paper was fastened to a board. Preliminary perspective sketch on verso. Watermark: AMIES & Co; also a dove with olive branch on the lef... More

[Preliminary sketch for neoclassic building with "MDCCXIX" on pediment...

Title devised by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 102. (DLC/PP-1995:140.102). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

[Preliminary sketch of a large public building in Charleston, South Ca...

Title devised by Library staff. Inscribed in lower left: 6 windows [?], green blinds [?], roof red [?]. Sketch of a face, possibly from a statue, on verso. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 106. (DLC/PP-19... More

[View of Charleston, South Carolina, perhaps coming down the Cooper Ri...

Title devised by Library staff. Watermark: AMIES. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 93. (DLC/PP-1995:140.93). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

[Preliminary sketch for neoclassic building with "MDCCXIX" on pediment...

Title devised by Library staff. Preliminary sketches on verso. Watermark shows a dove holding an olive branch, representing Amies & Co. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 101. (DLC/PP-1995:140.101). Forms p... More

[View of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with a large home and...

Title devised by Library staff. Preliminary sketch on verso. Includes puncture holes around the edges where paper was fastened to a board. Watermark with a large fleur de lis with W. Philadelphia Print Shop Inv... More

A chart of South Carolina and Georgia

Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion, Charleston, South Carolina

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902)

Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902)

History of the church in the press, and wil be speedily published by E...

Imprint 2.; Prospectus.; Dalcho, Frederic, An historical account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in S. C. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... More

Ruins of the R.R. Depot, Charleston, South Carolina

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902)

[Charleston, S. C. Hibernian Society membership certificate] / G. Thre...

Daniel Wilkins to George Coffin, 27 October 1822

John Longdon to George Coffin, 12 March 1823

George Bartlett to George Coffin, 22 August 1823

Catherine Congdon to George Coffin, 5 August 1824

Map Case, 19th century

Charleston District, South Carolina /

Relief shown by hachures. Scale from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. Description derived from published bibliography. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) S132. Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Charleston Harbour and the adjacent coast and country, South Carolina ...

Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. "Drawn by Hartman Bache, J.D. Graham, C.M. Eakin, W.M. Boyce, S. Wragg." LC copy 1 imperfect: Stained and torn in upper and lower po... More

The State of South Carolina. City of Charleston. An ordinance regulati...

Imprint 2. 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 172, Folder 35.

Charleston Mercury, August 23, 1827

Masters of vessels as well as others therein concerned, are required t...

Title.; Imprint 2. 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 172, Folder 36.

Beaker, 19th century

[Title page of "Fancy's sketch book" by Miss Penina Moise (Charleston,...

Drawing for a Proposed 6th Order Lens Column for the Lighthouse at Cha...

Maps and Plans Relating to the Lighthouse at Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows land ownership, lands of the William Bingham estate, acreages, and lot dimensions in Charleston Township, Tioga County, Pa. Title on label affixed to verso: Charleston. From the William Bingham estate map... More

New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holde...

A portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mails found there in July 1835. Mail sacks are handed through a forced window of the ransack... More

Map exhibiting the route of communication between Philadelphia & Charl...

Three rail and canal route distances are tabulated and one steamboat route. The legend indicates "Rail Road route," "Canal route," and "Steamboat route." Shows coastal area between Philadelphia, Pa., and Charle... More

Great Southern mail route from New York to N. Orleans! Through in 71/2...

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 30, Folder 30.

[Portrait of seated man holding the Charleston Zeitung, possibly the o...

Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:147). Forms part of: Daguerreotype Collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

Slave sale, Charleston, S.C.

From a sketch by Eyre Crowe. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1856 Nov. 29. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: S.C.; A... More

To southern travellers! Spring & summer arrangement of the great south...

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 31, Folder 6b.

Map showing the location of the Charleston & Savannah R.R. May, 1856.

Map of the South Carolina tidewater area between Charleston and Savannah, Ga. "The red line represents the located line; the blue lines represent some of the principal experimental lines." Chartered December 20... More