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P. Rico - Morrow Castle, Southern Methodist University collection

Title: P. Rico - Morrow Castle ..Alternative Title: [El Morrow Lighthouse, Puerto Rico]. .Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: 1939..Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico..Physical Description: 1 transparency: f... More

Garita del Diablo - National Parks Gallery

The building of the sentry box which has been referred to as a "fortin" or little fort of the "Espigon" began in 1634. Better known as the Devil Sentry box, it is one of the few 17th centry remaints of Fort San... More

Puerta de Santiago - National Parks Gallery

The Santiago gate was built between 1635 and 1641.

Puerta de San Juan - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

The San Juan Gate was built between 1635 and 1646, when the first defensive walls were completed in the southern part of the city.

German and Spanish Forts Near Bohemia Were Taken with Great Force Near...

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German and Spanish Forts Near Bohemia Were Taken with Great Force Near...

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A plan of Fort St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Jago & of St. Philip scituat...

In lower margin: To his grace Iohn Duke of Montagu, this plan is most humbly dedicated by his graces, most dutifull & most obedient servant, Iohn Thomas. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and waterco... More

A new & accurate map of Bermudas or Sommer's Islands, taken from an ac...

A new & accurate map of Bermudas or Sommer's Islands, taken from an ac...

Scale ca. 1:95,000 and ca. 1:110,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 64." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2147 Available also t... More

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Designed to be colored. Not colored. "Sold by Wm. Herbert on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street." LC Maps of North America, 175... More

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, and settlemen...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1916 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "I. Bayly, sculp."... More

A map of the British and French dominions in North America with the ro...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Alternate title: Carte des possessions Angloises & Françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Par I. Palairet. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Frenc... More

A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new...

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A general map of the country on the Ohio and Muskingham showing the si...

Map showing Native towns in the Ohio River Valley. Illus. in: An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764 [...] / published from authentic documents by a lover of his coun... More

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, & settlements...

Scale ca. 1:500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1926 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Incl... More

[Plan of the country at and in the vicinity of Forts Lee and Independe...

Scale ca. 1:160,000. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Shows British and Hessian troop positions in eastern Bergen County, New Je... More

Sketch of Forts Clinton & Montgomery, stormed the 6th Octob. 1777 by t...

Scale ca. 1:11,700. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes of troop movements and military units. LC Maps of North America, 17... More

A plan of the Forts Montgomery & Clinton as taken by His Majesty's for...

Scale ca. 1:18,000 (not ca. 1:6,000 as depicted by bar scale). Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Pictorial map. Includes index entitled "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1189 Available... More

[Part of a map of the Hudson Highlands showing Forts Clinton and Montg...

Scale ca. 1:70,000 (not "1 English mile to a foot"). Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Has watermarks. Northern of two or more sheets. Incorrect scale note in pencil.... More

Carte de la Dominique : Prise par les Francois le 7 septembre 1778, Av...

Escala de 2 leguas marinas [= 13,5 cm]. Coordenadas referidas al meridiano de Hierro

A sketch of New London & Groton with the attacks made on Forts Trumbul...

Scale ca. 1:21,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and land form drawings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1027 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

Plan of the attack of the Forts Clinton & Montgomery, upon Hudsons Riv...

Scale ca. 1:21,250. Hand colored. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Pictorial map. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

The Course od Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester : with the S...

Comprende parte de los estados norteamericanos de Pennsylvania y Nueva Jersey

Entrada del Morro - National Parks Gallery

The sally port and bridge entrance of Fort San Felipe del Morro were designed by the Spanish Military engineer Juan Francisco Mestre and were completed in 1786.

Africa: with all its states, kingdoms, republics, regions, islands, &c...

Revellin de la Perla - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

By 17th century, there was a fort in this area; it served as an artillery platform for the defense of the northern sector of the city of San Juan. This structure was built between 1776-1792, when the bastions a... More

Forts Zeelandia and Provintia and the City of Tainan

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清 佚名 台南地區荷蘭城堡 |Forts Zeelandia and Provintia and the City of Tainan

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Plan des Forts de Salamanque relatif á la Défense faite por les franca...

Presenta el plano de una parte de la ciudad de Salamanca con la localización del fuerte de San Vicente y otros reductos destacados, y de sus edificos más notables

Plan of Forts Green, Laurence & Swift and lines of intrenchments const...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Oriented with north to the upper right. Handwritten annotation on recto: No. 39. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 6199" on vers... More

Map of the United States, Territory of Oregon, west of the Rocky Mount...

Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. Relief shown by hachures. Label pasted on, signed in black ink: Wash: Hood Capt. Topl. Engrs. LC copy annotated in pencil with extensive notes and revisions. "S. Doc. no. 470, 25 Con. 2 s... More

Map of the United States, Territory of Oregon, west of the Rocky Mount...

Relief shown by hachures. "S. Doc. no. 470, 25 Con. 2 s." Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in pencil: scale incorrect. Another issue d... More

Public domain photograph of artwork in Instituto del patrimonio cultur...

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A Birds-Eye View of the Town, Harbours & Forts of Odessa.

Rken from the Illustrations of the Imperial Survey of the Ports of the Black Sea

The town, Forts and Harbours of Sebastopol. Taken from the Illustratio...

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[After the Capture of the Taku Forts]

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[Maps of the environs of forts Franklin, Alexander, and Ripley, in Mon...

Four fort vicinity sketch maps, each covering the same area, but in various stages of completion. The map with the most detail includes roads, drainage, vegetation, and fortifications. Relief shown by contours ... More

The Naval attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans

Night scene illuminated by gun flashes from Federal gunboats on Mississippi River. Apr. 1862. Photo "copied from a painting belonging to Adm. Porter". This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

To the forts. The steamer Argo! Capt. E.W. Davidson, leaves Foster's w...

Title.; 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 68, Folder 14.

[Forts, batteries, and a photographic studio in Virginia]

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Nov. 23, p. 742. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The great expedition, [...] on the way to Port Royal Inlet / sketched ...

Two panoramic views showing Union ships on way to Beaufort, South Carolina and bombardment of forts in Beaufort. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 257 (1861 Nov. 30), pp. 760-761.

Wyld's military map of the United States, the northern states, and the...

Colton's United States shewing the military stations, forts &c. Entere...

Scale ca. 1:7,900,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 7 "No 3" in upper left corner. Forts are marked by red flags. Indicates railroads, towns, names and boundaries of states and territories, rivers, and canals. ... More

Colton's United States shewing the military stations, forts, &c

Map of Charleston Harbor with Morris Island and James, Broad, Folly, a...

Regional map of Charleston Harbor extending along the Atlantic Coast from Sullivan's Island just north of the harbor entrance to St. John's and Kiawah islands to the south. Indicates the presence of Union warsh... More

Band of the 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran...

Band of the 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran (Arlington Line Defenses, Virginia). The regiment was organized in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1864. The 107th was transferred east and se... More

Part of Charleston Harbor, embracing forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, ...

Scale ca. 1:31,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 374 Shows the channel, drainage, vegetation, roads, plan of the city, and forts. A portrait of Major Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter, is in the upper right co... More

Union forts on Maryland shore - Public domain old map

Shows the names and configurations of Union fortifications on the Maryland side of the Potomac River in 1862, and in some cases the name of the regiment that built the structure. This appears to be a companion ... More

Lloyd's map of the Southern States, showing all the railroads, their s...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.T. Lloyd in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States ..." Text of newspaper... More

Colton's map of the southern states : including Maryland, Delaware, Vi...

Relief shown by spot heights and hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of southern Florida, text, and statistical t... More

[Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state...

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.55 From Harper's weekly, v. 5, Nov. 9, 1861. Following p. 706. Inset: Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina. 12 x 12 cm. Includes portraits of Lincoln, ... More

Civil War in America : Read's grand panoramic view of the free and con...

Relief shown by shading and landform drawings. Includes text, notes, and population information. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: darkened, minor los... More

The 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran (Arling...

The 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran (Arlington Line Defenses, Virginia ), November 1865. The regiment was organized in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1864. The 107th was transferred eas... More

Our naval and military operations at a glance. The coast and land line...

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their st...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.2 "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. T. Lloyd." Copyright no. 290, July 12, 1861, written in right margin. Stamped: Deposited in ... More

Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state ...

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Colton's map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...

Scale ca. 1:1,520,640. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 6.5 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 185[5?] by J.H. Colton & Co." Inset: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 19 cm. Includes tables of population... More

Map of the seat of war exhibiting the surrounding country, the approac...

Scale 1:633,600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 451.2 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by Jacob Monk." General map of eastern Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Includes "Table of distances f... More

Topographical map of Washington, D.C., and vicinity. Showing the Union...

Detail from a printed map of the Potomac River region of Maryland and Virginia, and including Washington, D.C., which Sneden has annotated to show the locations of Union forts and picket lines. NOTE: Researcher... More

Colton's map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...

Scale ca 1:1,520,640. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 6.6 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.H. Colton." Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y. Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 20 cm.-Colton'... More

Original maps of Forts Henry & Donelson and vicinity.

Not drawn to scale. Title from verso. Manuscript; pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 416 In upper left corner: 148.D⁴ [This number refers to a ... More

Contours of Union forts on south side of Potomac, 1862 [map].

This map shows the names and configurations of Union fortifications on the Virginia side of the Potomac River in 1862, and in some cases lists the name of the regiment that built the structure.

Bacon's military map of the United States shewing the forts & fortific...

Scale ca. 1:8,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 24 Ent. Sta. Hall: Aug. 182 , 1862. At top of map: 1s. Bacon's military map of America. 1s. Forts are named and marked by small flags. Map also includes towns... More

Magnus's county map of the United States, showing the forts, railroads...

Scale 1:2,111,789. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 30.2 Printed at the bottom of the map: Extra session of Congress map. Price 25 cents. General map of the eastern United States showing finished railroads, railroa... More

Capture of forts [sic] Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January 1862...

Shows Confederate Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. The entire site was to include the fort on the low ground near the edge of the river with an entrenched camp (Fort Heiman) on a high plateau immediately abov... More

Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts.

Shows the area surrounding Roanoke Island, N.C., including Croatan, Roanoke and Pamlico sounds, and the locations of Confederate forces on the eve of the Battle of Roanoke Island in February 1862. Color coding ... More

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their st...

Signed in ms: "Millard Fillmore 1862." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 29 LC Railroad maps, 138 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

The U.S. forts and batteries near Alexandria Va. Sept 1862 showing For...

Shows the locations of Union fortifications surrounding Alexandria, Va., including forts Lyon and Ellsworth in Fairfax County. The locations of Hunting Creek and the Potomac River are also indicated.

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their st...

Reconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Ph...

At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey. Prof. A. D. Bache, Supt. Stamped in lower right corner: From collection of David Dixon Porter. Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, covering the environs of forts ... More

Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...

The U.S. forts and batteries near Alexandria Va. Sept 1862 showing For...

Shows the locations of Union fortifications surrounding Alexandria, Va., including forts Lyon and Ellsworth in Fairfax County. The locations of Hunting Creek and the Potomac River are also indicated. NOTE: Rese... More

Capture of forts [sic] ... Donelson, Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January ...

This map shows the area surrounding Fort Donelson, Tenn., including the Cumberland River, the town of Dover, and Fort Henry Road, and includes the locations of confederate earthworks as well as roads, buildings... More

Map of the southern states of North America with the forts, harbours &...

Scale ca. 1:2,090,880. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 36.5 General map showing "dividing line between the free & slave-holding states." A list of other maps and atlases by Wyld is pasted on the verso. Description... More

Map showing siege operations against forts Sumter and Wagner, between ...

Scale ca. 1:6,750. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 389 Shows drainage, roads, high and low water line, 6-ft. and 12-ft. depth curve, batteries, trenches, stockades, and a plan of Fort Wagner. Fort Sumter does not ... More

Lloyd's official map of the state of Kentucky compiled from actual sur...

Detailed township and county map showing relief by hachures, drainage, coal and iron mines, salt works, canals, roads, and the railroad network. Scale 1:512,500. LC Railroad maps, 225 LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.... More

A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 1...

Scale ca. 1:54,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 628 "As a guide to note the approach of the Federal army, this map is invaluable, as the plan of its fortifications is taken from a correct drawing of a Southern... More

Reconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Ph...

Includes note describing positions of Union "mortar flotilla" on April 18-21, 1862. Annotated in pencil on verso: Forts of Jackson/St. Philip, [1863?]. "The Forts from data furnished by the Chief Engineer, U.S.... More

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their st...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 41.2 "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd." Text printed on verso entitled "Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the sout... More

Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state ...

Scale ca. 1:2,970,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 37 At top of map: Bacon's shilling series of war maps,-no. 3. Inset: Enlarged plan of the battle fields of Virginia and Maryland. Scale ca. 1:1,040,000. 16 x ... More

J. H. Colton's map of the southern states. Maryland, Delaware, Virgini...

Scale ca. 1:1,520,640. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 37.6 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by J. H. Colton." Printed by Lang & Cooper. Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 19 cm.-Colton's... More

New map of Charleston Harbor, showing the scene of the great naval con...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 376 Shows the coast from Long Island to the North Edisto River. Indicates drainage, roads, railroads, and dwellings with names of inhabitants. Channels, water depth... More

Sketch of the forts and breastworks near Petersburg

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.281) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Cowan's independent battery, 1st N.Y., inside one of the rebel forts ...

No. 787. 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, c2003. Mount... More

Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads.

Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Eastern corner of D.C. off map. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation. Coloring differs. Includes not... More

Plan of the attack by gun-boats on Forts Strong and Lee, Cape Fear Riv...

Scale ca. 1:9,250. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 316.44 From Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of ... More

Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads.

Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Eastern corner of D.C. ca. 7 cm. within map area. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation. Includes not... More

Defenses of Washington, extract of military map of N.E. Virginia : sho...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows woods and householders' names in rural areas. In lower left corner: Accompanying report of Brig. Gen. Richard Delafield ... dated October 30, 1865... More

Dismantling of the rebel forts after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e....

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing and sitting on a rifled cannon and other artillery in the interior of a Confederate fort. No. 3205. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Date... More

Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads.

Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation. In left upper margin: 39th Cong. 1st Sess.--Report of the Chie... More

Military Map of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Vicinity, Showing the locatio...

"Fortifications Map File" Plans of Military Forts

[Topographical map of the District of Columbia showing Civil War forts...

Partial cadastral map showing some landowners' names in rural areas. Relief shown by contours. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Title devised by cataloger. "Entered according to act of Congress in the ye... More

Index map for sheets, extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Alternate title in upper right margin: Defenses of Washington. Facsim. of map in J.G. Barnard's A report on the defenses of Washington to the Chief of Engine... More

An historical map of Pennsylvania : showing the Indian names of stream...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

map from "Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61"

This image has been taken from scan 000018 from "Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British... More

An attack from the captured Lukeutsuy fort, on the E. coast of Wei-Hai...

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Attack made by the forts at Jih island and the south-eastern head of L...

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[Large building with harbor in background, Greece?] [Buildings and for...

Print shows George III peering through a magnifying glass at an extremely large hog, which was apparently a gift from Enniscorthy, Ireland, as a peace offering; behind the King stands Lord Chamberlain. "Folios... More

Bombardment of Taku forts, by the Allied fleets /

"The scene opens by showing the battleships maneuvering for a position. They finally draw up in line of battle and commence firing on the shore batteries. Immense volumes of smoke arise from the fleet and from ... More

[Russian officers on a tour of inspection among the hill forts during ...

H63733 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7781.