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Photographs of President Richard Nixon Greeting the Apollo 11 Astronau...

Original caption: NASA/APOLLO. ABOARD THE USS HORNET - President Richard M. Nixon appears to be holding the Presidential Seal which is attached to the door of the Mobile Quarantine Facility during his greeting... More

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Brandin Huggett, from the Tico...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Persian Gulf Scene Camera Operator: IS1 Christopher Barb, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Eddleman, USMC, Communications CHIEF, Marine Lia...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: USS Austin (LPD 4) Scene Camera Operator: CPL Jeff Sisto, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

US Navy (USN) Personnel SPECIALIST 2nd Class (PS2) Doras Koch receives...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Scene Major Command Shown: USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN-76) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Kathleen Gorby, Usn Release Status: ... More

U.S. Navy SEAMAN John Coleman clears a clogged hose in the sand blaste...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Yokosuka State: Kanagawa Prefecture Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Adam York, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

190526-N-KW492-1002 ARABIAN SEA (May 26, 2019) U.S.

190526-N-KW492-1002 ARABIAN SEA (May 26, 2019) U.S. Navy Aviation Electronics Technician Airman Kenneth Gillan, left, and U.S. Navy Ship's Serviceman 2nd Class Aaron Danner inventory a plugging kit during damag... More

SEAMAN Aracecy Gallegos mixes paint in the paint locker on board USS H...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rodger D. Schilling, USN Release Status: Releas... More

US y Sailors from the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy Sailors from the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate USS HALYBURTON (FFG 40) and the Arleigh Burke Class (F... More

SEAMAN Aracecy Gallegos mixes paint in the paint locker on board USS H...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rodger D. Schilling, USN Release Status: Releas... More

U.S.S. Somers - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ashley.

U.S.S. Wichita - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ashley.

U.S.S. Saratoga, engraving, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A perspective view of the loss of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia in whi...

Photograph shows Tripolitan gun boats firing on the U.S.S. Philadelphia and during the Tripolitan Wars, 1803. Original engraving by Charles Denoon not in LC collection, which has only a black-and-white reproduction.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Register, June 1807, USS Chesapeake

USS Chesapeake Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Ship United States - Public domain drawing

Detail drawing showing how the hull of the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, sails in the water.

United States & Macedonian - Public domain drawing

Preliminary drawing for an oil painting showing the sea battle between the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, and HMS Macedonian off the coast of Maderia on October 25, 1812. The original... More

Constitution's escape from the British squadron after a chase of sixty...

Print shows rowboats towing the USS Constitution away from the British fleet as the British frigate Belvidera fires it's cannons. In the background, rowboats tow the British frigate Shannon. Other ships in the ... More

The National barber - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a sailor, identitied elsewhere as Samuel W. Dewey, having sawn the head of Andrew Jackson off the figurehead of the U.S.S. Constitution, passes it to another sailor awaiting in a rowboat alongside t... More

[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]

Drawing is on the "Susquehanna & Mississippil Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan. Watercolor drawing Taguchi Shumpei.

[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi under...

Drawings are panels one and two of the "Machinery scroll' depicting Perry's expedition to Japan, 1853. Watercolor by a contemporary Japanese artist.

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor.

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Includes measurements for length, breadth, weight, and horse power. Blind e... More

Dinner given to the Japanese commissioners on board U.S.S.F. Powhatan ...

Print shows a banquet given for the Japanese commissioners on board the U.S.S. Powhatan, possibly in the bay at Edo (Tokyo). Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas an... More

President and Plantagenet. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the USS President sailing to the left, in the foreground, and the HMS Plantagenet, on the right, in the background. Inscribed below image: "President". Published in The Naval battles of the United ... More

Action between the Constitution and the Guerriere / Chapin ; Rogers.

Print shows HMS Guerriere without masts in the aftermath of battle with the USS Constitution.

U.S.S. Polaris, Washington Navy Yard., American Civil War Glass Negati...

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Adm. B.F. Sands, U.S.N - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Com. Sands. Commanded the U.S.S. Fort Jackson on Dec. 24 & 25, 1864 at Ft. Fisher, N.C. Credit line: Brad... 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

U.S.S. Polaris, Washington Navy Yard, American Civil War Glass Negativ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil, emulsion side: Polaris, Washington Navy Yard, 417, 162. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Credit line: Civil war phot... More

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)

Australia. Composed and written by John Anderson, [Sea,] U.S.S. Connec...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: J...

Report on activities of U.S.S. Pocahontas

U.S.S. Wabash, American Civil War Glass Negative.

No. 4939. Mounted with four other photographs and one print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Bellwood, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Significance: 1) Union Navy Commodore John Rodgers thought it feasible to reach Richmond by following the James River. On May 15, 1862, about 8 A.M., Rodgers led five warships—U.S.S. Galena, Monitor, Aroostook,... More

Battle of Brick House Point, West Point, King William County, Virginia

Significance: 1) When the Confederate army abandoned its defenses at Yorktown and withdrew up the Peninsula toward Richmond, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan mounted an amphibious operation to disrupt his enemy's ... More

A gun crew on deck of U.S.S. Mendota, James River, Virginia

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On deck of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, S.C.

No. 4954. Mounted with four other photographs and one print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[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.

Gun crew on deck of U.S.S. Miami, [i.e. Mendota] James River, Virginia

No. B504. Additional information from similar image, 111-B-374, held at the National Archives. Hand written on verso: "See Miller, vol. 6, page 275". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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.

On deck of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, S.C.

No. 4956. Mounted with four other photographs and one print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Crew on deck of U.S.S. Colorado

No. 4455. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U.S.S. Mendota, gelatin silver print during American Civil War

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On deck of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, S.C.

No. 4957. Mounted with four other photographs and one print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: J...

Report on activities of U.S.S. Pocahontas

Officers on deck of U.S.S. Mendota, James River, Virginia

No. B265. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Final Transfer and Muster Roll of the Crew of the Monitor

James River, Virginia. Captain W.N. Jeffers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR

Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Capt. W.N. Jeffers on board the Monitor. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865,... More

[Commander James H. Strong of U.S.S. Mohawk, Flag, and Monongahela in ...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Drawing of the Hulls for the U.S.S. Constellation and the U.S.S. Congr...

Ship Design and Construction Drawings Public domain image of an American navy ship, 18th-19th-century, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James River, Virginia. Officers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group, officers on board the Monitor, July 9. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Front row, from left: Robinson W. Hands, Edwin V. Gager;... More

James River, Virginia. Captain W.N. Jeffers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James River, Virginia. Officers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Monitor [USS Passaic?], American Civil War Glass Negative.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Side Elevation of the U.S.S. Monitor

This drawing shows the Ericsson battery of two guns of 12 - inch caliber. Ship Design and Construction Drawings

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

[Morris Island, South Carolina. Unidentified camp]

Photo shows tents and soldiers on beach of Morris Island. In distance, ironclads, including USS New Ironsides and five monitor-class warships are in action against Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie in Charleston ha... 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.

Launch of the Dictator. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card...

Photograph shows crowds gathered for the 1863 launching of the U.S.S. Dictator by Delameter Iron Works, New York City, New York. Title from handwritten inscription on back of card. Publisher attribution based o... More

[Civil War envelope showing woman holding flag with message "For the U...

Addressed to Mrs. Elizabeth D. Stebbings, Waterloo, Seneca County, N.Y.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Plan of the assault on Ft. Wagner, July 11th 1863.

Detail of Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, Charleston S.C., showing Confederate Fort Wagner being shelled by the U.S.S. Monitor. Also shown is the daylight assault of Gen. George C. Strong against the heavily... More

Officers on deck of U.S.S. Susquehannah

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hampton Roads, Virginia. School ship U.S.S. SABINE

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: ship Sabine off Fort Monroe, Va. Dec. 1864. Hampton Roads. Va. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865... More

Hampton Roads, Virginia (vicinity). U.S.S. MALVERN

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Flagship "Malvern" off Norfolk, Va. December 1864. Corresponding print is in LOT 4182. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of... More

Hampton Roads, Virginia. School ship U.S.S. SABINE

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"Powder monkey" on U.S.S. New Hampshire, off Charleston, S.C.

Young man or boy leaning against cannon. No. 4955. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original glass negative is: LC-B811-4016

Map showing entrance to Mobile Bay and course taken by Union fleet.

Map shows Confederate fortifications (Forts Powell, Gaines, Morgan) and the location of Union fleet in Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. On August 5, Union Admiral Farragut attempted to lead several ships int... More

U.S.S. "Hunchback." James River, Virginia Commanded by Act[in]g Master...

Photograph shows the officers and sailors of the steam-powered gunboat on its decks. Purchase; Gary Edwards Gallery 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:114). Was AP1003.

Last of the Alabama Commodore Winslows grand victory march. Respectful...

Print shows the battle between the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama off the coast of France, with a private British yacht "Deerhound" nearby; the Alabama is foundering and its crew is being rescued by the Kear... More

Chart of the battle off Cherbourg. - Public domain map

The map charts the course of the two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the British Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes the C.S.S. A... More

Chart of the battle off Cherbourg - Public domain map

The map charts the course of the two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the British Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes the C.S.S. A... More

Hampton Roads, Virginia (vicinity). U.S.S. MALVERN

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Map showing entrance to Mobile Bay and course taken by Union fleet

Map shows Confederate fortifications (Forts Powell, Gaines, Morgan) and the location of Union fleet in Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. On August 5, Union Admiral Farragut attempted to lead several ships int... More

Tipton, Honorable Thomas Weston of NEB. Sen. Chaplain of the 1st Nebra...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on tape: Senator Tipton [illegible]; scratched into emulsion: 672 [crossed out], 1291 [crossed out], Senator Tipton, U.S.S. ... More

Dalgren [i.e. Dahlgren], Admiral and his staff on U.S.S. Pawnee

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, c2003. Pur... More

Ingalls, Honorable John J. Sen. of Kansas (photographed March 12, 1873...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: No 10, 27085, J.J. Ingals, U.S.S. Kansas. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Cong... More

Admiral Dahlgren and staff on board U.S.S. Pawnee, off Charleston, S.C...

"65" inscribed on photograph. 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 Civ... More

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.

Portrait photo of Judge David Davis, U.S.S. Court

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: David Davis, USSC, 488, 1934 [crossed out]. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Co... More

Portrait photo of Judge David Davis, U.S.S. Court

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

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.

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.

U.S.S. Yantic, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit Publishing Compa...

Negative no. falls within nos. listed in Detroit, Catalogue F (1899) Detroit Publishing Co. no. 07353. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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.

U.S.S. Hamilton, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit Publishing Com...

"WJ 138" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021084. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. Hamilton - Public domain image of a steam boat

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

USS Constitution from "King's Handbook of Boston Harbor ... With ... i...

This image has been taken from scan 000211 from "King's Handbook of Boston Harbor ... With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Br... More

Photograph of U.S.S. President Lincoln

Naval History Photographs (Bureau of Ships) Public domain image of a U.S. navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial starboard side stern view showing US Navy (USN) Sailors manning...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MC1 Aaron Glover, USN Release Status: Released ... More

The US Navy (USN) Perry Class frigate the USS SIMPSON (FFG 56) sails p...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: New York Harbor State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Steven J. Weber, Usn Release Status: Rel... More

PH2 Richard New York City....Two SH-3H Sea King helicopters from Helic...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A port side view showing US Navy (USN) Sailors manning the rails aboar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MC1 Aaron Glover, USN Release Status: Released ... More

A starboard side view of the US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class (Flight...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 David P. Coleman, USN Release Status: Relea... More

A starboard side view of the US Navy (USN) Oliver Hazard Perry Class: ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 David P. Coleman, USN Release Status: Relea... More

A starboard side view of the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class: Guided M...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Christopher Newsome, USN Release Status: R... More

A starboard side view of the US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class (Flight...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hudson River State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 David P. Coleman, USN Release Status: Relea... More