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Ships: Navigating for Images at the Library of Congress

Sample Images

See below for sample images of ships from the collections in a variety of formats, including photographs, drawings and graphic artwork.

Bain News Service, publisher. Kansas U.S.N..1917. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Currier & Ives, publisher. Clipper ship Three Brothers, 2972 tons: The largest sailing ship in the world. 1875. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Carol M. Highsmith, photographer. The barque Alexander Von Humboldt II, one of the ships passing by in Charleston Harbor at Tall Ships Charleston. 2017. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Historic American Engineering Record. Ship BALCLUTHA, 2905 Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA. 1988. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Europe to America ... by United States Lines. ca. 1955. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Alfred R. Waud, artist. U.S. Ship Cumberland. Between 1860 and 1865. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

George Stacy, publisher. The Great Eastern steamship. ca. 1860. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.