Historic Military Activities

A collection of vintage photographs showcasing military scenes, including soldiers in various roles, medical support, and informal interactions during wartime.

Soldier preparing medical supplies in a makeshift tent during World War I.

M.E. Wendt. Dec 26 1902. Wendt Brothers

Stockholm Northern Telegraph Expedition.

Observation Station of the Riding Artillery Division No. 6 at Scitovce.

Pioneers in the neighborhoodMeissen. Pioneers in the neighborhood

Soldier preparing medical supplies in a makeshift tent during World War I.

España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Portada del diario republicano El Día Gráfico, editado en Barcelona, octubre de 1936. Soldados republicanos en la trinchera a la espera de la ofensiva.

Three Wehrmacht soldiers, 1940 photograph Three Wehrmacht soldiers on a balcony. Behind them trees. They only wear military pants and boots. On the back it says: IM ... Dordrecht (Holland) IM Sept. 1940 Dordrecht photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. occupier and civilians Dordrecht

Reading Emperor Wilhelm II in uniform in his hut, 1889 photograph Is part of the album "Erinnerungen an Norwegen im July 1889 Norway paper. cardboard albumen print Norway

Werk Verena. Italian 149mm Panzer Haubitzer. .

Small pal. Officer Council + 1862.

British Major Keane, full-length Portrait in Uniform, Standing with Horse, Wooden Huts in Background, Crimean War, Balaklava, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

Austrian field telegraph station in Poland during World War I. Ca. 1915.

Artillery SchilderhausMeissen. Artillery Schilderhaus

The Spanish General Marina in the ruins of the kasbah of Selouane, Morocco, photo from L'Illustration, No 3476, October 9, 1909.

British golf champion Abe Mitchell.

H.K.H. Princess Beatrix visits army components at the Artillery Schietkamp Oldebroek, at 't Harde and in Elspeet.

Battle-torn regimental flag of 76th Ohio Infantry Regiment with photographs of Major General Charles Robert Woods and Major Genral William Burnham Woods / Z.P. McMillen, photographer. | Library of Congress

Officers Seated at a Tent, Camp de Chlons Made 1857 France. Albumen print, from the album Souvenirs du Camp de Chlons . Gustave Le Gray

Fireworks for The Fourth. If Adolph doesn't already have a splitting headache, this is sure to give him one. Somewhere in England, Coast Guardsman Joseph H. Barnes, Chief Boatswain's Mate, of 74 Mills Street, New Bedford, MASS., Lights the fuse on a giant firecracker in observance of the fourth of July, while other Coast Guardsmen plug their ears for the blast.

Feldkurat consolates heavy reinforced at OSEK.29.8.17. .

Machine gauge at the Honved Infantry Regiment No.30 in Rarancze. .

Soldiers of the Bignal Corps posing outside of Castle Williams on Governor's Island, which was named in honor of Jonathan Williams.

Stop on the terrace of the Hotel San Domenico in Taormina. 1924

Man holding a pocket auger. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.

Oregone saddle. Officer

Persia. Three Swedish officers at the Persian gendarmerie in light clothes (two of them in tropical helmets) sit at a table. Nordic

Vladimir-Wolynskij: homecomers from RussiaFuffschaft. (2 / II.1918.).

Canon tube from the time King Sobiesky's in Buczacz. .

Portrait of a Zouave, presumably in Algeria, 1896 photograph Possibly this, in view of the caption, is a portrait of photographer Marotte. Part of album of a French amateur with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the World Exhibition of 1900 and well -known French. Algeria paper. photographic support land forces. (military) uniforms Algeria

Executed National Guards, Paris Commune, 1871

KNVB photo collection. Officials from the Dutch national team en route to Denmark.denemarken - The Netherlands (2-2), played on October 23, 1938 in the Idraetsparken in Copenhagen .. October 23, 1938. Denmark, Copenhagen

Group of youth stormers, standing in the lid, portrayed; Youth storm. A group of boys and adults in the uniform of the (national) youth storm are outside in the lid, during a youth camp. In the middle C. van Geelkerken, founder of the youth storm, in Plusfour. All left with glasses F. W. van Vloten Head of Volkszorg.

Description: Reading from left to right: Prince Monissara, Chef du Protocole of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Major You Heng, A.D.C. to the King. His Excellency Mao Chhay, Minister of Information. His Excellency Khim Tit, Member of the King's High Council. Location: Cambodia Date: 14 March 1955 Location: Cambodia Date: 14 March 1955 asia, cambodia, asiathroughalens

Arrested students. These students were arrested by the military police of Kuomintang.

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. Work of the w.a.a.c. in France. A Bathing Parade. 1914-1918}. France

Rome Italy may 1951 A portrait of a mature Italian military guard in uniform standing at attention with pride and determination

German soldiers execute (by hanging) five russian resistance mmen at a public execution in 1941 during the invasion of Russia. World war II

Antigone on stage in Syracuse. 1924

1936-1939. Spanish Civil War. A village army officer observes the enemy's movements.

Soldier Training with Bayonette 1880s-90s Unknown. Soldier Training with Bayonette 269544

Kowel, evakuierte.

Training camp for civil servants. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Peronne and stand arntzenius. .

Airfield Brixen. .

Coast Guardsman is Sentry at Invasion Headquarters. On guard at the entrance of Southern France invasion Planning Headquarters at an undisclosed port in the Mediterranean is Coast Guardsman George Mihalovitz, seaman first class, of Chicago, Ill. Inside its walls, details of today's thrust into Southern France were mapped.

War album 95, picture 28308.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The British Western front. The clock case in a chateau once occupied by the Germans. The clock was removed by the Germans before evacuating. 1914-1918}

12/31/1931. Madrid-Manila Raid Civl aviator Don Fernando Rein Loring after landing for the first stage of his Raid project.

Ultner Standschütze .

Photo collection First World War. Two soldiers consult in a shelter. 1914-1918}

Susie King Taylor was the first African American Army Nurse during the Civil War. She was with the all Black Union army troop named the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. She published a memoir of her service, 'Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers' in 1902 (BSLOC_2019_2_64)

JosÈ Enrique Varela Iglesias, 1st Marquis of San Fernando de Varela (1891 ñ 1951) as an officer in Spanish Morocco 1925. He was a Spanish military officer and Carlist noted for his role as a Nationalist commander in the Spanish Civil War.

F.m.v. Follow me .

Description: The Commander Fiji Military Forces, inaugurating construction of M. Q of received Fiji R.N.V.R. Location: Suva, Fiji fiji, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

Sweden police. August 16, 1932. (Photo by International Newsreel).

Photograph taken during the First world war showing the conditions in some environments. An Engineer works alongside the bunks. Showing the sleeping and working quarters in the same space. Circa 1914-1918.

Exhibit Supply Company Picture Post Card, Scene from "The Pony Express". "Stage coach and prairie schooner leaving St. Joseph, MO for California in "The Pony Express." 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.".

Funeral of G ener Al Galliéni. Catafalque and guard of honor guard of honor before the Catafalque of General Joseph Galliéni, between May 29 and June 1, 1916 in the invalids, 7th arrondissement, Paris Anonymous. Funeral of General Galliéni. Catafalque and guard of honor guard of honor before the Catafalque of General Joseph Galliéni, between May 29 and June 1, 1916 in the invalids, 7th arrondissement, Paris. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. May 29, 1916-01 June 1916.

General Bandlanke, Captain of Agotha with the Inlet Officer Lieutenant Haas. .

Mrs. T. Withers Christens the USS Apogon at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Original caption: Mrs. T. Withers, sponsor, christening USS Apogon, launched March 10, 1943, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.. 1943-03-10T00:00:00.

Army kitchen ca. between 1918 and 1928.

Dion Boucicault, actor 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Evacuation of paintings in 1939.in 1939 the museum was closed in connection with war threat. Part of the collection was evacuated. Here the preparation.Two men with lanterns bi jde night watch.

Lincoln and McClellan, US Presidents

Conchy-les-Pots, Oise, Picardie, France , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Conchy-les-Pots , Oise , Picardie , France). Military uniform, front, artillery, man, army, Clothing, First World War, Human Starries, Society, France, Conchy les pots France, Conchy les jars, 75-sous Casemate room in Conchy-les-Pots

War album 95, picture 28318.

Fylgia (depicted name).Fylgia (depicted name)

Another 'Battle' in Coast Guard's Endless Lifesaving 'War'. This image depicts an injured child who was rescued by a Coast Guard plane piloted by Coast Guard Lieutenant Kenneth Bilderback which carried Flight Surgeon Stanley Stanulonous.

Interior of a Kompanie Cavern on the Calvary; Section Podgora-Süd.

The Jig Is Up, Fritz - Coast Guard Foils German Weather Base Attempt. This image depicts two of the 28 Nazi Prisoners, their hands raised in surrender, bing taken to a Coast Guard combat cutter of the northeast coast of Greenland.

Soldiers in a tunnel on the Ortles glacier.

Haupt's Torpedo for Quickly Wrecking Wooden Bridges. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Wounded duellist, Heidelberg, Germany

Fri Hold Rehbinder, Toverum's ironworks, Småland.

Portrait of six boys in military school uniforms with their teacher. Jean-Gabriel Eynard (Swiss, 1775 - 1863)

Signing Franco-German Armistice inside the same railroad coach in which the Germans signed the armistice ending World War I. Compiegne Forest in France, July 31, 1940.

Ανακτορικη φρουρα - Euzone du Palais Royal , Soldiers, Greece. Stratos. Euzōnoi. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Fire Com'r Johnson, Gaynor, Lieut. Kennel

Highlanders; Tetmajer, W Odzimierz (1862-1923); after 1888 (1888-00-00-1900-00-00);Tatra Mountains (mountains), ethnography, highlanders, unknown (provenance), Poland (culture), Polish drawings, collective scenes, generic types

Vigilance. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman on watch while holding a machine gun.

Navigating Officer of a Coast Guard Cutter Takes the Craft's Position With a Sextant Shot at the Sun. A Shot at the Sun. Coast Guard Lieut. (j.g.) J. P. Gilhooley, of Philadelphia, Pa., a veteran of 24 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, is navigating officer of a Coast Guard cutter on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. His hat back side forward, he takes the craft's position with a sextant shot at the sun.

Portrait of Sergeant Willem Groen (Right, 1890-1970) with a colleague, in the garden of the Damzust barracks (Geniekazerne, Mineurslaan 4) in Utrecht.n.b. After the fire in the Willemskzerne in 1877, the genius was housed in the buildings of the Damlust barracks. In 1913 they moved to the Kromhout barracks.

Reconnaissance of the Inlandsbanan.de joint.

Excellence Roth with its General Stabel Lieutenant by Langer, at the end of November 1915..

Tower of London. - Horse Armoury. (Recess in the South Wall.) Valuable specimens of Armour,...belonging to...reign...Henry VIII. Frank Mason Good (English, 1839 - 1928)

Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms posing with bayoneted Springfield Model 1861 rifled musket with attached bayonet, knife, and Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver in front of painted backdrop showing landscape with camp. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, 2011, pp/liljunion. United States, Army, People, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Military uniforms, Union, 1860-1870, Firearms, 1860-1870, Knives, 1860-1870, Backdrops, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Shock troops from the command South during the Second World War. Chef of the kitchen staff from the staff, at work in the kitchen.

David T. Mansfield, Civil War victim. Attributed to William H. Bell (American, 1830 - 1910)

Thomas Nast with caricatures of Union and Confederate soldiers in 1888. The smiling artist, tweaks the chin of the almost life size Confederate soldier. Nast's work appeared in the 'Harper' Weekly', a Northern newspaper that supported the reforms of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the Republican Party (BSLOC_2018_4_19)

Group photo from the freight goods expedition in Ljusdal 1905.

Susie King Taylor was the first African American Army Nurse during the Civil War. She was with the all Black Union army troop named the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. She published a memoir of her service, 'Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers' in 1902 (BSLOC_2017_20_161)

Rome Italy may 1951 Candid moment of Italian soldiers joking around during service in the 1950s

Khlopkovoe proizvodstvo. Razmotka priazhi dlia utka | Library of Congress

Soldiers on Steps of Military Building, WWII, 2nd Battalion, 389th Infantry, US Army Military Base Indiana, USA, 1942

Photo collection First World War. Scene of a Blijspel .. 1914-1918}. The Netherlands

Valencia, 05/13/1909. The Valencian exhibition. Battle of Flores Regia.

The sweat grape. Social in the service officer.

Composite Field Armor 1565-1575 Milan. Steel and leather .

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