See all Images | Search Collection:

Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States

Over 1,000 original prints, drawings, and maps, selected primarily from The Phelps Stokes Collection, as well as from several other Library collections, featuring views of American towns and cities and representations of historical events, scenes, places, and battles relating to the United States, from 1497 to 1899. The selection of images is the same as that featured in Gloria Gilda Deák's 1988 book of the same title.

Collection Contents  |  Related Subjects

William James Bennett (1787-1844). New York, from Brooklyn Heights. (1836?) Digital ID: 54723 William James Bennett (1787-1844). New York, from Brooklyn Heights. (1836?) Digital ID: 54723

Collection Contents


28 Xbre 1836 Jersey City en face New-York. (1836)
38th Regiment Jefferson Guards, New York State Artillery. (1843)
American scenery, Palenville, New York. ([ca. 1860])
[The Arcade, Providence R.I.] ([1836-1841])
Aurora, N.Y. from the North Poplars. (1848)
Bird's eye view of Fargo Dakota 1880. (1880)
Bird's eye view of Rochester Strafford County, New Hampshire from a position east of town. ([ca. 1880])
Bird's eye view of San Luis Obispo, Cal. (1877)
Bird's eye view of the city and county of San Francisco, 1869. (1869)
Bird's-eye view of the great suspension bridge, connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn, from New York looking south-east. (1883)
Birds eye view of Camp Convalescent, near Alexandria, Va. (1863)
Birds eye view of the city of San Francisco and surrounding country. (1868)
Birds-eye view of Washington, D.C. and environs, 1865. ([1865])
Blake Street, Denver, Colorado. (1866)
Bref om de Forenta Staterna, föfattade under en resa till Amerika ... en 1818, 1819, 1820, af friherre Axel Klinkowström. (1824)
Die Brüder Gemeinde Bethlehem in Nord America in Pensylvanien.... ([ca. 1814])
[The building of the Brooklyn Art Association.] (1866)
Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864. ([1864])
Burning of the Merchants Exchange, New York City. The great fire of December, 1835. (1909)
Cataracte de Niagara. Falls of Niagara. United States of Nth. America. Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale .... (1808)
Catskill Mountain-House. (1830)
City of Concord, N.H. from the high bluff about 80 rods north east of the Free Bridge. ([ca. 1855])
The city of St. Louis. (1874)
City of Taunton, Mass. ([1875])
City residence of Mr. Daniel Parish, New York. ([ca. 1855])
The conflagration of the Masonic Hall Chestnut Street Philadelphia. (1819)
Continental Clothing House 566, 568, 570, and 572, Washington Street Boston. ([ca. 1874])
[Crystal Palace. New York.] (1853)
[The Doolittle engravings of the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.] ([1775])
The Eno collection of New York City views.
Exchange Hotel and Ballard House, Richmond, Va. ([ca. 1875])
F Street, Denver. (1866)
Fall River, Mass, 1852. (1852)
The Falls of Niagara. ([1805])
Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street, looking north. (1904)
Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street, looking south. (1904)
First view of the battle of Patapsco Neck [Baltimore Maryland]. ([1950])
Fort Pickens, Pensacola Harbor, Florida. ([ca. 1861])
From a contemporary print. Federal Hall, Wall Street and Trinity Church, New York in 1789. (1879)
Front view of the New York Post Office.... (1845)
The fruits of arbitrary po[w]er, or the bloody massacre, perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, in wh[i]ch Messrs: Saml: Gray: Saml: Maverick Iames Caldwell. Crispus Attucks. Patrick .... ([1770] / [1770])
Fulton St. and Market. ([ca. 1834])
General view of the great Yo-Semite Valley Mariposa County, California. (1859)
The grand display of fireworks and illuminations at the opening of the great suspension bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the evening of May 24th, 1883. View from New York, looking towards Brook.... (1883)
Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August 20, 1883. ([1883])
Grass Valley, Nevada County, California. ([1852])
The great Bartholdi Statue, Liberty enlightening the world. (c1885 / 1886)
The great East River suspension bridge, connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. View from Brooklyn, looking west. (1886)
Great suspension bridge at Lewiston and Queenston, over the Niagara River six miles below Niagara Falls. ([ca. 1855])
Hacket's Town, Warren Co., N.J. (1845)
Harbour of New Archangel in Sitca or Norfolk Sound. (1814)
Helena. ([1865])
Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts Halls. ([1948])
A home on the Mississippi. (1871)
[The Hudson River Portfolio.] (1820 / [1821-1825])
The Hudson, from West Point, grounds of the U.S. Military Academy. (1862)
I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints.
Interior of vestibule, Canal Street front, New Custon House, New Orleans.
[Irving's residence on the Hudson.] ([ca. 1840])
Islip church, Long Island, 1842.
Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord. ([1828-1829])
Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah, Virginia. ([ca. 1810])
Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania. ([before June 1879])
Lafayette College. ([1877])
Lake George, Black Mountain. ([ca. 1860])
The landing of the British forces in the Jerseys on the 20th of November 1776 under the command of the Rt. Honl. Lieut. Genl. Earl Cornwallis. (1776)
[Laudonnierus et rex athore ante columnam a praefecto prima navigatione locatam quamque venerantur floridenses.]
Letters written during a tour through northern and eastern states of America. (1794)
Lime Stone Springs, Female High School, Spartanburgh Dist., S.C. ([1852?])
Main plaza San Antonio, Texas. ([1857?])
The mammoth tree grove, Calaveras County California. (1855)
Massachusetts Hall in the University of Cambridge, New-England. (1948)
Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals. ([1826])
The monument to De Kalb. (1827)
Moulin à vent sur les bords de l'Hudson, en face New-York. Pl. 1re. ([ca. 1837])
Mount Vernon. ([1795])
Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. ([1863])
Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. (1865)
[Natchez under the hill, Mississippi.] ([ca. 1853])
Nevada [City]. (1858)
New Haven, from East Rock, 1853. (1853)
The new Tribune Building. ([1875])
The new Tribune Building. ([1873])
New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the industry of all nations. (1852)
New York, taken from Battery Place. (1874)
New York, und Umgegend. (1867)
[Newburgh from Fishkill Landing.] ([1853])
Niagara Falls from the Table Rock. (1867)
Niagara Falls, part of the American fall, from the foot of the stair case. ([1829-1830])
Niagara Falls, part of the American fall, from the foot of the stair case. (ca. 1835)
Niagara Falls, part of the British fall, taken from under the Table Rock. ([1829-1830])
Niagara Falls, part of the British fall, taken from under the Table Rock. ([ca. 1835])
Niagara Falls...this view of the American fall, taken from Goat Island.... ([1830])
Niagara Falls...this view of the British fall taken from Goat Island.... (1830)
A north-west prospect of Nassau-Hall, with a front view of the presidents house, in New-Jersey. ([1764])
Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works. ([1852])
The old post office New York. ([1875])
[Panorama of Broadway in New York City.] ([ca. 1860])
[Panoramic views of Philadelphia, from the State House. East view looking down Chestnut St. across the Delaware, Camden, N.J. in the distance.] ([1850?])
[Panoramic views of Philadelphia, from the State House.] North view, looking across Chestnut St. towards Spring Garden, Northern Liberties and Kensington. ([1850?])
Park Row stores, opposite the Astor House, New York. ([1854])
Pawtucket Bridge, 1817.
Philadelphia in 1702. (1875 / 1875)
Picturesque views of American scenery, 1820. ([1819-1821])
Plan for a rail way supension bridge, across the Connecticut below Middletown. ([1851])
A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey. ([1731])
Portsmouth in New Hampshire. ([1778?])
Printing-House Square, New York. ([1865?])
Procession of victuallers of Philadelphia, on the 15th, of March 1821. ([1850-1852?])
Puerto-Rico. ([1842?])
Rendezvous of distribution, birds eye view of Camp Convalescent near Alexandria, Va. (1864)
Rio Janeiro. ([1848-1850])
Rockland Lake, cutting ice, view from the north east. ([1845-1848])
Rückzug der Procession nach Beendigung des Festes = Return of the procession at the close of the festival, Weaverville, Trinity County, Cal. ([1860])
Saint Anthonys Nose. View on North River. ([ca. 1834])
San Francisco from Rincon Point. ([1849 or 1850])
San Francisco in 1849. (1894)
San Francisco, 1860. ([1860])
San Francisco, looking south from North Point. (1877)
San Francisco. (1851)
[Santa Cruz, California.] ([ca. 1878])
Saratoga Schottisch, New York. ([1851])
Sequoia wellingtonia, the Two Guardsmen. ([1867])
[Sketch of center tablet of San Francisco.] ([ca. 1856])
Sn. Fo. the morning after the great fire of May, 4th, view taken from the corner of Broadway and [Sans]one Sts. ([1851?])
South Boston, 1859. ([1859])
South east view of the Pennsylvania Hospital. (1814 / 1814)
A south prospect of ye flourishing city of New York in the province of New York in America. ([ca. 1719])
A south west view of Lancaster in Pennsylvania. ([1929])
St. Louis [Missouri] in 1832. ([1850-1900?])
St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. N. east, corner of Brown and St. John Sts. Phila. (1840)
The State-House in Philadelphia 1776. ([1850-1900])
[Storm in the Rocky Mountains.] ([1866])
Summit of Mount Washington [New Hampshire] 6380 feet above the level of the sea. (1858)
Sunny Side, the residence of the late Washington Irving near Tarrytown, N.Y. ([ca. 1860])
Theological Seminary betw. 20th & 21st. Sts. & 9th. & 10th. Aves. (1863)
To Joseph S. Lewis Esquire, this view of Fair Mount Works.... ([1824?])
To the cadets of the West Point Military Academy.... (1828[-1829])
Todds Valley, Placer County, California. (1857)
Twelve views in Miami and Montgomery counties Ohio 1831. ([1831-1832])
U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, California. ([ca. 1856])
An unfinished house, in Chesnut Street Philadelphia. Built for the late Robert Morris Esqr. (1841)
Union, Humboldt County, Cal. (1858)
The Upper Ferry Bridge over the River Schuylkill near Morris Street in the county of Philadelphia. ([ca. 1819])
[Van Tassel's house. Irving's residence.] ([1835?])
View of Baltimore. ([1848?])
A view of Bethlehem, one of the Brethern's principal settlements, in Pensylvania, North America = Vue de Betlehem, l'un des principaux établissement des Frères Moraves en Pensilvanie, Amérique septent.... ([1757])
A view of Charles Town, the capital of South Carolina, in North America. ([ca. 1772])
A view of Charles-town, the capital of South Carolina. (1774 / 1776)
View of Chelsea Mass. from Eagle Hill East Boston. (1848)
View of Dover N.H. taken from Garrison Hill. (1855)
A view of Fort George, with the city of New York from the southwest. ([1830-1870])
View of Great Salt Lake City. (1867)
View of Green River, Wyoming Territory (looking north). ([ca. 1869])
[View of Honolulu Harbor.] (1849)
View of Jefferson [Watkins Glen], Chemung Co. N.Y. looking north. (1847)
View of Matagorda [Texas].
View of Melrose and surroundings, taken from the Ursuline Convent, Westchester Co. N.Y. ([1868])
View of Minesota Mine, County of Ontonagon, State of Michigan, taken from the south, September 1858. ([1859])
A view of New Castle with the fort and light house on the entrance of Pisquataqua River [Portsmouth, N.H.]. ([1778])
[View of New Haven, Connecticut, from Ferry Hill.] ([ca. 1862])
View of New London, from Fort Griswold. ([ca. 1852])
View of New Orleans, taken from the lower cotton press. ([1851-1855])
View of Philadelphia. (1777)
View of Sacramento City, as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850. (1850)
View of San Francisco, 1850, taken from a high point of the south side. (1850)
A view of Sutter's Mill and Culloma Valley, on the south fork of the American line, Alta California. ([ca. 1850])
View of the city of Bangor, Me. (1835)
View of the East Dorset, Italian marble mountains and mills. ([1864?])
View of the great fire in New-York, Decr. 16th and 17th 1835 as seen from the top of the Bank of America, cor. of Wall and Wm. St. (1836)
View of the ruins after the great fire in New-York, Decr. 16th and 17th 1835, as seen from Exchange Place. (1836)
A view of the town, and harbour of San Francisco. ([1849?])
View of the Water Gap and Columbia Glassworks-River Delaware. ([1815-1818])
View of Winsted, Conn. (1877)
[View of Yosemite Valley, California.] (1873)
View on the Potomac, Virginia. ([ca. 1810])
[Views of the Adirondack Mountain region.] ([1838])
Vue de San-Francisco = Vista de San-Francisco. ([1870])
Washington Greys 8th.. Regt. N.Y.S.T. on special duty at Camp Washington Quarantine St. (1859)
Washington Hall, Philadelphia. (1817)
Washington Irving's house at Hell Gate N.Y. (1841)
[Washington's Monument, Baltimore.] (1833)
Weaverville, 1856, Trinity Co., Cal. (1858)
Wildey Monument commemorating the founding of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows by Thomas Wildey in the city of Baltimore on the 26th day of April 1819. ([1865])
Willimantic, Conn., 1882, from Blake Mountain. (1882)
Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) in the spring of 1837. (1893)
The Yo-Hamite Falls, [this m]agnificent scene is situated in the Yo-hamite Valley near the source of the middle fork of the river Merced, Mariposa County California. (1855)
= view images    = expand to see more titles
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the vast collections of The New York Public Library, including drawings, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.