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19th Century Military Life

Archive photographs depicting military personnel and activities, reflecting the historical military lifestyle and engagements.

Park of artillery 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Arlington National Cemetery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Arlington (Va.)

Mai Fest, Galveston.. J.B. Blessing & Co.

American shells that were fired at the fall of Santiago.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Camp de Chlons: Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard; Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820 - 1884); Chalons, France; 1857; Albumen silver print

Location: Borneo Date: 26 April 1921 asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens

British soldiers in trenches during the Boer War in South Africa, Anonymous, 1900 stereograph Oranjerivierpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life. trenches Orange River

A Winslow Clambake ,. Messenger Collection

Guns and bullets in Cherbourg ..

Before Liao Yang - brave Japanese in open field about to fire on masked Russian battery in the hills , Artillery Weaponry, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

National Cemetery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Richmond (Va.)

Washington Gathering ,. Messenger Collection

Camp Griffin 1861. Attribution of G.H. Houghton as photographer from similar photograph in "A very fine appearance" : the Vermont Civil War photographs of George Houghton / Donald H. Wickman. Barre : Vermont Historical Society, c2010, page 36, Title from item, In album: Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, page 62, Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography, Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071. United States, Army, People, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Photographic studios, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Tents, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Photographers, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military life, Union, Virginia, Langley.

Cavalry with carts at a house in France, Anonymous, 1902 photograph Part of photo album of an army exercise in Southwest France in 1902. France paper. photographic support land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen). (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart France

Location: China Date: 1920-1940 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Deleveliness crossers cross a field that is surrounded with soldiers who are in the position; In the background houses and palm trees, c. 1905 photograph Deleveliness crossers cross a field that is surrounded with soldiers who are in the position; In the background houses and palm trees. Part of photo album 'Suriname'. Paramaribo Blad: Cardboard. Image: Paper Suriname

Visitors at Naval Rendezvous, Hampton Roads, Virginia, U.S.A. Sailors in small steam and row boats at Naval Rendezvous. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1893. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

Carrying the Body into the Capitol. State Funeral of President McKinley.. William H. Rau (American, 1855 - 1920)

Cavalry at a car in France, Anonymous, 1902 photograph Part of photo album of an army exercise in Southwest France in 1902. France paper. photographic support automobile. land forces. land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen) France

Men wearing military uniforms pose together on a boat with two men and a dog , Boats, Military personnel, Bodies of water, Dogs, Alexandre Benois Collection

Volunteers of the Fourth Expedition leaving San Francisco on transport 'Pennsylvania' for Manila , Troop movements, Soldiers, Ships, Crowds, Spanish-American War, 1898

Bussy, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Bussy , France). Rear-fronst, military uniform, agriculture , breeding, work scene, car transport, rural life, group portrait, field, peasant, agricultural equipment, man, First World War, clothing, economic activity, daily life, transport, human beings, France , Bussy , Tractr Agricoles

Military funeral, Anonymous, 1940 - 1943 photograph Album magazine with six photos of a German military funeral. Part of the photo album German occupation of the Netherlands. Netherlands photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. funerary ceremonial. laying flowers or wreath on grave Netherlands

Captain T.R. Freeman and indentified man with dead whale on beach, Utica, N.Y.. Unknown maker, American

Description: Another View. Winburg Refugee Camp Location: Winburg Description: Undesirable Camp. Location: Winburg boerwar, concentrationcamps, africa, winburgrefugeecamp

Relief of the distribution of the Medal of Honor, Anonymous, 1850 - 1900 photograph cardboard. photographic support albumen print military honours. sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)

Utica Citizens Corps. Camp Greenman, Saratoga Springs, 1869.. Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 - 1873)

Colossal statue, for the Soldiers' Monument, at Antietam, Md. 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Rhode Island, Soldiers, Monuments & memorials, Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862

Chinese who paid war's penalty - at south gate immediately after allies entered the city - Battle of Tientsin, China , War casualties, Debris, War damage, China, History, Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901

Labrador. Square Island. Divine Services on Deck of "Nimbus," August 6th.. H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s)

Hunting company, presumably in Central France, 1899 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. France paper. photographic support hunter France

Group of firemen posed outside in front of station with wagon; Jules Marinier (French, active 1860s); 1855 - 1865; Hand-colored Albumen silver print

An etching by Heinrich Reinhold from 1800-1813 depicting the surrender of Madrid on December 4, 1808, showing soldiers, cavalry, and city architecture.

Fortress Monroe.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Garde Nationale, 7e Bataillon, Lt-Colonel Martin du Nord; André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819 - 1889); Paris, France; 1870 - 1871; Albumen silver print

Description: Police Description: French Camel Corps Description: W.A.F.F. africa

The war, departure of hell ..

Rice harvest in Wuhan Province, Japan. Circa 1941.

Marlow. From: World War I photograph album, 1919, by Herbert Green.

Soldier and young woman, Jules Marinier, 1864 - 1880 tissue stereograph Paris photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / perforating soldiers and civilians

Filipino soldiers on the firing line, P.I. , Firearms, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles

Captured Kaffirs, who gave valuable information as to Boers' strength at Slingersfontein, (Jan. 16th), S.A...

In Gilly. Collection of Juhl

President Félix Faure and General Raoul Le Mouton De BoisDeffre view a parade in Krasnoye Selo. .

Image of a page from a photo album by Scoutinggroep Salwega from Utrecht with photos of the reception by the Maidenhead of Group 2, the Utrecht department of the N.P.V. (Dutch boy scouts association) during a camp in Wargrave (England) .n.b. Salwega later emerged from group 2.

Description: Headqaurters of General Mei Location: China Date: 1903 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Monument of The Unknown Dead, Arlington.. Unknown maker, American

Soldiers' Monument. 1874. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Worcester (Mass.), Monuments & memorials, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865 , Monuments

The picture shows a motorcyclist equipped with machine gun and gas mask driving on a country road. The picture shows a motorcyclist equipped with machine gun and gas mask driving on a country road.

Artillery pieces and ammunition, West Point. George Kendall Warren, photographer (American, 1834 - 1884) 1868 A number of cannons and mounds of cannonballs of different sizes are positioned in orderly arrangements on a grassy area. A tall structure, possibly a flag pole, is visible on the center left area of the image.

Under the tent , Audiences, Camp meetings, Tents

No. 45 - An Ingenious Device.. William Saunders (English, 1832 - 1892)

Dugout at churchyard near Rheims. 1918. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918

Governor's Guard in Franklin Square. 1871 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, New London County (Conn.), Norwich (Conn.), Parades & processions, Connecticut. Governors Foot Guard

Military guns, presumably at an army base, Anonymous, 1937 - 1941 photograph This photo is part of an album. baryta paper gelatin silver print projectiles, explosives, etc.

Japanese soldiers with military guns, presumably at an army base, Anonymous, 1937 - 1941 photograph This photo is part of an album. baryta paper gelatin silver print projectiles, explosives, etc.. the soldier; the soldier's life

Vue prise au port western. dans la crique des Mangliers.. Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842. Prints. 1830 - 1835. General Research Division

Skirmish line drill, cadets, West Point Military Academy. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1900. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Two soldiers in the dark on the street, 1824 - c. 1870 steel (alloy) steel engraving

Reception of the Japanese Embassy, New-York, June 16, 1860. 7th Regiment going down | Library of Congress

Le Mort-man, France , 1929 - French provinces - Stéphane Passet - (March 26 -May 18) (French - Le Mort-Homme , France). Obelisk, commemorative inscription, commemoration, war memorial, carved decor, post-war period, Registration , Information, First World War, Meuse, dead man, war memorial of the 40th division

Scene at West Point: men in unform with cannon in field. Gustavus W. Pach (American, born Germany, 1845 - 1904)

Exhibit Supply Company Picture Post Card, Scene from "The Pony Express". "Indians burning a white settlement." This item is a picture post card used as an exhibit in the case of J. Frank Meyer, Trading as the Exhibit Supply Company v. Louis Hurwitz, Trading as United Postcard Supply Company. Issued by Exhibit Supply Company, this post card features a scene from the film "The Pony Express.".

Serving out Army supplies to unending bread line of refugees at Ft. Mason, San Francisco disaster. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, San Francisco (Calif.), Earthquakes , California, San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906, Bread & soup lines, Disaster relief, Fort Mason (Calif.)

Telling Tommies' tales Description: Correspondence from a staff member at the Great Western Railway office in Paddington, London, who went to war.

Mote about fort; entrance to city. (Toul, France). 1919. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918

Netherlands, 1900-09 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands

Location: Borneo Date: 26 April 1921 asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens

U.S. military post at the Cascades, May 1860 | Library of Congress

Interior of Le Géant Inflating 1863 France. Gelatin silver print . Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)

The Seventh Regiment arrive in front of the Metropolitan to escort the Embassy to the City Hall, June 18, 1860. Instantaneous View. The Japanese Embassy in New York - Scenes and Incidents. 1859 - 1899. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, Metropolitan Hotel (New York, N.Y.), Ambassadors , Japanese , United States , 1860-1869

Stall with Japanese Marine flags in Japan, T. Enami, 1900 - 1907 stereograph JapanPublisher: yokohama cardboard. baryta paper flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.) Japan

Field police by engine and bicycle, 1925 - 1931 photograph Album magazine with one photo: two agents with bicycles and three agents on a motor with sidecar of the field police in Batavia. Part of the photo album offered to S. Koster by the Association of Higher Police Civil servants in the Dutch East Indies in 1931. Batavia cardboard. photographic support Dutch East Indies, The. Batavia

At breakfast. Cannons given to the city of Verdun after 1870. Four cannons given to the city of Verdun after 1870 presented in the exhibition of mutilated works of art or from the regions devastated by the enemy, small palace, 8th arrondissement, Paris, 1916 -1917 Anonymous. At breakfast. Cannons given to the city of Verdun after 1870. Four cannons given to the city of Verdun after 1870 presented in the exhibition of mutilated works of art or from the regions devastated by the enemy, small palace, 8th arrondissement, Paris, 1916 -1917. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1916-1917.

Description: Police in Malaya. Location: Malaya Date: 1930-1940 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

Balloon Corps Transport, with Lord Roberts' Army - advance on Johannesburg, S.A...

Cemetery, Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.. No.6562. 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Soldiers' homes , Washington (D.C.), United States Soldiers' Home, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Cemeteries

Description: At the I.G's, 3 June, 1891. Location: China Date: 03 June 1891 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Marine au Treport..

Battle flag celebration, Sept. 17th, 1879. 1879. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Hartford (Conn.), Parades & processions

Description: R.A.F. "Fly Past" (Padang, May 6th). Location: Singapore, Malaya singapore, asia, asiathroughalens

Charge of Ewell's Corps on the cemetary i.e. cemetery gate and capture of Ricketts Battery. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings, Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003. Battlefields, 1860-1900, United States, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg

Group portrait of under -totation 'Goenoeng Segih' by the police in Lampong, 1932 - 1933 photograph Part of remembrance album for F.J. Junius, departing resident of Lampong (South Sumatra). Bush photographic support police. bicycle Bush

Fez (Morocco), April 1911. The Moroccan War. The Fez rebellion, severed heads hanging from a wall.

Gun park & barracks, Boston Navy Yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Cannon balls, Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

Prescott, Charlestown , Monuments & memorials

On the L.S. & M. Div. of the Northern Pacific R.R.. Caswell & Davy

Photographic Incidents of the War. All Over Now - Confederate Sharp-Shooter at Foot of Round Top, Gettysburg.. Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)

Netherlands, 1900-09 part 3. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands

Soldiers in a car in France, Anonymous, 1902 photograph Part of photo album of an army exercise in Southwest France in 1902. France paper. photographic support automobile. land forces France

The trophies in the park, West Point, N. Y., Mexican mortars. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Engineering Hanger - Crew Working On A Bell P-39. Panama.

Kamp-Lintfort, Anonymous, 1940 photograph Album magazine with five photos of German soldiers stationed in Camp-Lintfort, before departure to the Netherlands. Part of the photo album 'KriegSerinnerungen' 1940-1945. Germany cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print preparation for battle. review, inspection (of company, unit, troop) Germany. Kamp-Lintfort

Captured brass Howitzer guns at the Rocketts, Richmond, Va. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Persia, 1490-1907. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Iran

A fine catch , Fish, Fishing

View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter). On the parapet, overlooking the harbor. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3057. Artillery (Weaponry), South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Parapets, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Chevaux-de-frise, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, South Carolina, Charleston.

One of Morro's defenders Havana , Forts & fortifications, Artillery Weaponry, Spanish-American War, 1898

Bomb proof, interior. Fort Montgomery. American views, Hudson River, West Point series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Tangier. Sultan entrance. The cavalry ..

Tower of London. - The Horse Armoury. Henry VIII. on horseback, with a foot soldier on his left...belonged to the Monarch.... Frank Mason Good (English, 1839 - 1928)

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