steamboats

Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

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Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat - Public domain image of a steam boat

Print shows broadside view of John Fitch's design for ferry boat with steam-driven oars. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or monthly miscellany,.... Philadelphia : Printed for T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cis... More

Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat Annual passage of the herrings.

Prints show (on top) a boat with power-driven oars and (below) a map showing the annual migration route taken by herring around the north and central portions of the Atlantic Ocean. Illus. in: The Columbian ma... More

Water proof - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a female figure possibly representing Columbia or Commerce, full-length, seated, facing right, wearing a helmet with an eagle(?) with wings spread on top; she is holding a pike with her right hand, ... More

[Amphibious steam powered carriage and paddle boat designed by Oliver ...

Illus. in: The Boston mechanic and journal of the useful arts and sciences. Boston : G.W. Light & Co., 1834 July, p. 17. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonar... More

Study sketches of two ships - a sailing ship and a steamship, possibly...

Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (L... More

Stony Point, near Gibraltar, on the Hudson River, U.S. July 24th 1846

Drawing shows a steamship on the Hudson River, with a view of the lighthouse at Stony Point, New York. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Providence River. Steamer Newport, Stereoscope Card

reverse side of stereoscopic card

Caldwell. Steamer Minnehaha, Stereoscope Card. New York State, 19th ce...

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Steamer Hampton unloading passengers to transfer to boat for Silver Sp...

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Steamer Hampton unloading passengers to transfer to boat for Silver Sp...

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[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Running the Lachine Rapids, Montreal, Stereoscope Card

reverse side of stereoscopic card A fine, fine, royal canadian army badge with a crown of arms and a crown of arms. A postcard showing a coat of arms and crests. Public domain postcard scan.

Narragansett S. S. Co's Steamer Bristol

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Transfer steamer Maryland, on the beach at Vineyard Haven. Driven asho...

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Saloon of the Steamer "Bristol," from aft looking forward

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Train station buildings and dock, Stereoscope Card

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Lake George, New York, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Steamer Florence, Mandarin, Fla., Stereoscope Card

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Steamer "Bristol," interior view, Stereoscope Card

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U.S.S. Vanderbuilt - Charleston, Boston Mass.

U.S.S. Vanderbuilt. A side-wheeler presented to the U.S. in 1861 by Commodore Cornelius (?) Vanderbuilt, a ship of 3360 tons, stout and swift, perhaps the most successful of the converted merchant ships. Equipp... More

St. Louis in 1832. From an original painting by George Catlin in posse...

Print shows a side paddle wheel steamer named the "St. Louis" headed up the Mississippi River under steam, with a view of the Saint Louis waterfront in the background. Based on an original oil painting by Geor... More

The "Magnet" navigating rough water, Stereoscope Card

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Running the Lachine Rapids, Montreal, Stereoscope Card

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River, Stereoscope Card. Rhode Island, 19th century.

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[Ben Campbell, steamship at landing]

Photographer unidentified. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 163; back, central spiral within rectangular border. Purchase; 1982; (DLC/PP-1982:095). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

River boat on the Potomac - Public domain scan / drawing

Sketch shows a sidewheel steamboat on the Potomac River. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 drawings in portfolios with binder's title: Sk... More

S.S. Eastern City - Charleston, Boston Mass.

S.S. Eastern City. Built in New York for a Boston S.S. Co., and used in weekly run to Portland, Eastport, & St. John, New Brunswick. Her arched frame was a novelty, copied later on the California coast. Courtes... More

The New S.S. William Norris of Philadelphia - Charleston, Boston Mass.

The New S.S. William Norris of Philadelphia. This ship was designed to "ride on the water instead of ploughing through it." Her hull was of wood, but her keelsons of iron, and contained air chambers supposed to... More

[Stern paddle-wheel steam tugboat towing British warship]

Illus. in: A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour,.... [London : Reprinted for J. Sheepshanks, 1855 from 1737 edition]. Published in: The ... More

East view of Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New J...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of Camden, New Jersey in the foreground, with many buildings of commercial and residential nature, the Delaware River with steamboats and ships, and a view from the east of Philade... More

Enterprise on her fast trip to Louisville, 1815

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[Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1...

Drawing shows many people from Philadelphia ice skating on the Delaware River, possibly near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, "during the severe winter of 1856." Title from lithograph published after this drawing. (... More

Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 18...

Print shows many people from Philadelphia ice skating on the Delaware River, possibly near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, "during the severe winter of 1856." At head of title: Souvenir of the coldest winter on re... More

First boat built on the Western waters, 1812

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Fitch's steamboat On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphiadelphia ...

Illus. from: The life of Robert Fulton [...] / John Franklin Reigart. Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co., 1856.

New-Orleans (Louisiana) / H. Lewis pinx. ; Lith. Jnst. Arnz & Co. Düss...

Panoramic view of harbor with ships. Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steamer loading cotton, Mobile, Alabama. NYPL Sterescope Card Collecti...

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

Transatlantic sketches--the Mississippi River

Wood engravings showing three views of the Mississippi River, captioned: 1. Down the lower Mississippi--from the Baton Rouge; 2. Voyageurs ascending the lower Mississippi; 3. Woodchopper's hut, lower Mississippi.

From Grays Ferry looking south / Jas. Queen.

Drawing shows two steamboats at dock and four riverboats or barges on the Schuylkill River, with marsh in the foreground. Signed "Jas. Queen" on lower right. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson c... More

View of St. Louis, Mo. [Levee] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

Purchase; Christie's, South Kensington; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:260). Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public ... More

Captured steamer used as a picket boat St. Johns River

Broadside view. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: 74. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.341) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

View of the famous levee of New Orleans, the capital of Louisiana, whi...

Levee with bales of cotton, African-American workers and steamboats. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 228 (1860 Apr. 14), p. 306 and 315.

Joseph Whitney - Public domain drawing

Three fragmentary drawings of steamboat Joseph Whitney. Title inscribed center right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.39). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Scene on the upper Mississippi (Am Ober-Mississippi)

Two steamboats and raft in foreground. Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Silver Lake, a U.S. Navy tin-clad steamboat which patrolled Con...

Gift; Connor Paul Younkin; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:151). Forms part of: Younkin collection of cartes de visite. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2017:151, no. 5 (AA size part)

Small steamboat at dockside; building on left

Small steamboat at dockside, building on left. Courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center

Bushū Yokohama hakkei no uchi - hatoba no kihan

Japanese print shows a man and a woman standing on the docks as a steamboat returns to the pier. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Cock 1. Engraving attributed to: Hori Take. Annotations, stamps, etc. on ver... More

U.S. gunboat Queen City - An old photo of a boat in the water

No. 3147. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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.

Arrival of the Twenty-Second Indiana Volunteers, Colonel J.C. Davis, a...

Soldiers getting off steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 246 (1861 Sept. 14), p. 582.

Union, Landscape view print - Public domain print

Print shows the harbor at "Annapolis", Maryland, and a view of "Fort McHenry", on an unfolded lampshade. 660 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Inscribed in ink on ve... More

Tennessee River near Florence, Alabama, 1862

Drawing shows a steamboat on the Tennessee River, near Florence, Alabama. Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. Title on mat (source unverified): Tennessee River near Florence, Alabama, July 18, 1862. ... More

Commodore Farragut's squadron and Captain Porter's mortar fleet enteri...

Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass"; some are identified as the "Colorado, 40 Guns", "Pensacola on the Bar", "Westfi... More

The National steamer Oriental, on shore on the sandpit near Nag's Head...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 July 5, p. 221.

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

Memphis (Tennessee) before the war / sketched by Porte Crayon.

Composite of three scenes showing the old battery at the navy yard, steamboat landing, and the cotton levee, Memphis, Tennessee. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 March 15, p. 168. David Strother (1816-1888), 19... More

The levee at Memphis, Tenn.-Hauling sugar and cotton from their hiding...

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Difficulties of a working general among the bayous Bayou navigation in...

Four illustrations: men poling a flatboat; man seated on shore; soldiers along bayou; and a steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 328 (1863 April 11), p. 225. DCRM(G) example 1F1.1 - Material without... More

Headquarters of the Union Army commanded by General Grant, on the bank...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after sketch by Henri Lovie. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 16, no. 392 (1863 Apr. 4), p. 29.

Hampton Roads, Virginia. Ammunition schooners, American Civil War Glas...

Photo shows boats anchored off City Point, Virginia, including the schooner William Spear of Baltimore (name on stern); a sidewheel steamboat (left center) with the likely name Metamora; astern of her, the hosp... More

Chapin, Honorable Chester William of Massachusetts. (early mail contra...

An old photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Review of the returned veterans by Gov. Curtin--General Meade and staf...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1865 July 1, p. 236.

View of Cincinnati, Ohio - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

490 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright entry no. 490 dated August 15, 1866 in volume covering time period, Nov. 9, 1864 - May 9, 1867. Transfer; U.S. District Court. Ohio. Southern District.

Burning of the steamer Stonewall, on the Mississippi River, October 28...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Nov. 13, 1869, p. 149.

Wheeling, West Virginia, Ohio River steamer and the Island in 1869

Photograph shows stern wheeler, the R. R. Hudson docked. Photo owned by Wm. Richardson.

Steamer "South Shore", Quincy Massachusetts

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Steamer Massasoit, Quincy Massachusetts

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Steamer "Massasoit", Quincy Massachusetts

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Egypt--the religious ceremonies preliminary to the inauguration of the...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1870 Jan. 1, p. 268.

James Howard cabin. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows stove in the main cabin of the steamer, James Howard.

Steamer J. J. Hill at Rufes Hummock, Queency, Massachusetts

Steamer J. J. Hill and dredger Courtesy of Thomas Crane Public Library

Steamer J. J. Hill at Rufes Hummock, Queency, Massachusetts

Steamer J. J. Hill and dredger Courtesy of Thomas Crane Public Library

Steamer J. J. Hill at Rufes Hummock

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Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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Steamer "Massasoit", Warren S. Parker, lantern slide

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Steamer Monnitor ashore at Merrymount, Queency, Massachusetts

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Steamer "South Shore", Warren S. Parker, lantern slide

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

Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound

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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

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.

Acheron Passage, Dusky Sound, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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[Composite of ten steamboats] - Public domain image of a steam boat

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Acheron Passage - Dusky Sound. From the album: Views of New Zealand S...

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Acheron Passage, Dusky Sound, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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James McNeill Whistler - [Steamboats off the Tower]

Print shows view of the Thames River with the Tower of London on the opposite side. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butter... More

James McNeill Whistler - Steamboats off the Tower

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James McNeill Whistler - Steamboats off the Tower

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U. S. S. Huron, which was lost Nov. 24, 1877 near Oregon Inlet, North ...

Photograph shows side view of U. S. S. Huron anchored. Copyright 1897 by C. F. Holden, Charlestown, Mass. Copyright 18?8 at Washington, D.C. No. 452.

The Clermont on the Hudson River, 1810

North Carolina. The steamship "Metropolis," wrecked in a gale off Cur...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1878 Feb. 16, p. 413.

Alleghany Mountains - Print, Library of Congress collection

2504 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bruns, William, copyri... More

Mouth of Erie Canal, Buffalo, New York

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"Rotorua" in Milford Sound, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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Steamer "Stamford", Warren S. Parker, lantern slide

From oil painting in book. Courtesy of Thomas Crane Public Library

From a steamer on the Lualaba River, Belgian Congo

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Alaska tourist steamers at Columbia glacier

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Cotton on the levee, New Orleans, LA

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Mouth of Erie Canal, Buffalo, New York

reverse side of stereoscopic card A newspaper with a large text reading " the canal buffalo, ny ". A newspaper article with a text about the city of buffalo. Public domain postcard scan.