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Early 20th-century photographs of prominent figures in formal attire, engaging in discussions and events, often outdoors.

Aug. Belmont

State troopers with riot guns await duty at Farrell, Pennsylvania during the Steel Strike of 1919. The post-war Red Scare increased public sentiment against the labor unions (BSLOC_2016_8_42)

Guglielmo Marconi's wireless station in the United States, Solon photograph by Campello, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 8, February 22, 1903.

Photo collection First World War. The big blow to the west. The German emperor leaves the quarter of an army command. 1914-1918}

March 1909. Photo Cantos. Alicante. Oath of a Gentleman. The lieutenant colonel of cavalry Don Miguel de Elizaicin swearing his position as gentleman before the civil governor of the province Mr. Paradela.

Army Signal Corps working wireless in field

Signalling from cash register bldg. - Dayton (flood)

Lt. Torrey Webb

71st Regt.

09/30/1915. The War in the Balkans. Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria aboard a torpedo boat of his squadron.

Description: The Palestinian A.M.P.C. Unit in France. A special series of pictures illustrating their work and also the conditions under which they live. "A member of the band gets in some practice". Location: Palestine; France Date: 1939-1940

German Army auto with wire cutter

Lt. W.V. Page explaining

War exhibit -- N.Y.

French aviator Henri Salmet.

Prof. H. G. Osborn "Old Glory"

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War A very clear photograph of Cody with Mr. Morton holding an extended wing kite next to the wooden wall of Cody's shed on Laffan's Plain. Cody used much larger versions of this type of kite in his man lifting kite system. According to Cody he was fascinated by kites from a young age, when he saw the Chinese cooks who worked on the cattle drives making and flying toy kites. Like many of Cody's tales of his early life, it is difficult to say whether this is true or not.. In friendly competition he and his sons used to build kites and fly them to great heights. They began building larger and larger versions until Cody decided to try and construct a man carrier. After many trials and the occasional accident Cody designed and built a system that could easily carry a man to a height of over 2500 feet and hold him suitably stable whilst he was in the air. His design was purchased by the war office and Cody was employed as kiting instructor. Whilst

Sending a message from the top of the War Department - Wireless Telegraph, circa 1899

Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 in an armoured car with trailer attached at Dunkirk, bound for the front. Wilding died near Neuve Chapelle, France on 9 May 1915 while fighting in the Battle of Aubers Ridge. Date: 1915

08/31/1916. The Royal Day in San Sebastián. Her Majesty the Queen on the sea ladder landing of the yacht club after the Regattas.

Original caption: "U.S. Forest Service Instruction". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Bleriot's Accident at Reims

Pilots of the P3 military airship taking a break in the shade of their aircraft, Milan, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 35, August 27, 1911.

President McKinley in Asheville. President McKinley and others posing in an open automobile with mountains and rustic structure in background. McKinley (1843-1901)was the 25th President of the United States and led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.

Mr Shield, December 1946, New Zealand, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Officers in factory , Ordnance industry, Armories, Military officers, Machinery, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Obusier à tir rapide, French soldiers next to a howitzer, recto - printed, stereograph, stereophoto, photos, 2904., height 85 mm, width 170 mm, photographer, 1914 - 1918, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Servia, 1873-1900. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Serbia

Representatives from the Black Dyke Mills Band proudly showing off their National Championship, Crystal Palace, 1000 Guinea Trophy won on 29th September 1928. Their conductor was William Halliwell. Date: 1928

The governor, Admiral Raffaele Ricci Borea d'Olmo, and General Carlo Caneva arriving in Tripoli, Libya, Italian-Turkish war, photograph by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 44, October 29, 1911.

Madrid, January 1941. The mayor of Madrid, Mr. Alcocer, visiting, together with municipal technicians, the work being carried out in the Plaza de Ramales to locate the tomb of the great painter Velázquez.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection

Women's Land Army

Sam. Blythe, Wash.- Col. Johnson, Tex.- Col. J.H. Carrol

Archangel, U.S. soldiers feeding Russians

In the sausage praternity, soldier with a woman, Emil Mayer -, photographer

E. Wilmot, J. Gray, D.M. McBeath, and Bonnard

Generals Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928) and Joseph Joffre (1852-1931) at the Allied Conference in Paris, March 27-29, 1916, France, World War I, photo Illustration from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII , No 14, April 2, 1916.

Lt. Richards, Capt. Kirby, Capt. L.G. Heffernan, Lieut. Schultz

On board ship to New York in First World War, Filmer on deck, the 'Kino king' with cap and cigar ..

Soldiers on tracks of bridge from which strikers fired (strikers from American Tin Plate Mills)

Two Moro soldiers, Philippine Islands. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Soldiers,Philippines,1900-1930, Muslims,Philippines,1900-1930.

Photo taken after the 4-day demonstration in Haarlem. Anthony Fokker is in the leather jacket.

John Moisant

Canteen, 8th Coast Defense

May good luck always cross your path. A black cat crossing the path of a traffic policeman.

Gen. Howe and wife

Arrival of the Governor-General, 12 April 1935, Wellington, by Roland Searle.

A bugler of the First Battalion of the First Albanian Regiment of the Imperial Guard / Abdullah Frères, Phot, Constantinople

At Wellington: The casket and the Hon. Hall-Jones, 21 June 1906. From the album: Family photographs 1904-1907, 1906, Levin, by Leslie Adkin.

Sword and Commission. Mrs. Olive Parker of Memphis, Tenn., looks at her son, Cadet Kenneth Raymond Vaughn, with pride as he shows her the sword which he received in addition to his commission as ensign at graduation exercises at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, Wednesday. Mr. Vaughn, battalion commander of the 1944 Coast Guard cadet class, received the sword as a prize for proficiency in military tactics and drill. Eighty-two cadets, the largest class in its history, were graduated from the Academy, New London, Conn.

Maimed German at work

Gen. G. T. Bartlett & Lt. J.W. Frost

Infantry garden benchMeissen. Infantry garden bench

Army Commander von Boroevic With his adjutant; Adelsberg, present-day Postojna, Slovenia; (headquarters of the army command); Isonzo front; photographer: 23. Korps.

Caption: Mrs. Thomas Ward of Hackensack, N.J., participating in the third Liberty Loan parade in New York City on April 26, 1918. She proudly marched in honor of her three sons who were serving in the army during World War One.

Guardsmen & girls, Fishkill, 7/18/15

The image represents three uniform-dressed crew members by an aircraft gun on board the mincoat river fast during the long journey 1966-1967. At the bottom right, the flag artiller Evert Ahlin is visible, to the left a high-boat and in the middle of an adolescent artillery crew. At the bottom right, the flag artiller Evert Ahlin is visible, to the left a high-boat and in the middle an adolescent artillery craft. Included in albums with photographs from Älvsnabben's long journey 1966-1967. She declined 10/11 1966 from Karlskrona and went through the Suez Canal to Australia, US West Coast, through the Panama Canal via Dublin home to Marstrand 6/5 1967. The album contains images on board and on the visits you made in land. King Carl XVI Gustaf went on this trip and there was therefore a photographer on board. The album has belonged to Oskar Linde.

Confederate Reunion: Battle flags of war between the states circa 1917.

Mabel Garrison on RECRUIT

Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) visiting the airfield in Wiener Neustadt, 1910, Austria, photo by Seebald, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVII, No 42, October 16, 1910.

Leopold Staff on ul. Nowy Świat in Warsaw; from the series to the photojournalism "U Leopold Staff", "Świat", 1954, No. 31, pp. 10-11; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1954 (1954-00-00-1954-00-00);

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by nurse and officer of St. John's Ambulance Brigade.

Chaplain Paul P. Galliger Offers Prayers for the USS Tench.

Field Artillery

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. The occupiers / occupation in the Netherlands. First months .. German soldiers in a direction indicator on the Grote Markt of Haarlem. May 1940. Haarlem, the Netherlands

Thos. B. Leahey, R.W. Hebbard, W.C. Yorke, W.H. Gompers, W.T. Smith, C.W. Carty, G. Hamilton, R.E. Connover, Jr.

Photo collection First World War. The King Inspects The Household Battalion in Hyde Park. Princess Mary .. 1914-1918}. Great Britain, London

Warden T.M. Osborne, Sing Sing

Coast Guard Commander Awarded Legion of Merit. U.S. Coast Guard Commander Ralph Roy Curry receives the congratulations of his two small daughters, Helen Kate (left) and Constance Ruddy, on his receiving the award of the Legion of Merit at ceremonies in the office of Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, at Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Thursday. Commander Curry was cited for "exceptionally meritorious conduct and outstanding performance of duty as Commanding Officer of a Coast Guard Cutter when that vessel rescued survivors of a torpedoed transport (in the North Atlantic) during the early part of 1943." A native of Viola, Mo., Commander Curry was educated in the schools of Aurora, Mo., and in Springfield Teachers College at Springfield, Mo., before receiving appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. in 1927. Graduated with the rank of ensign in 1931, he later studied law at George Washington University at Washington, D.C. His wif

J.P. Sousa

University of Washington

Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson - the hero of 'Merrimac' , Piers & wharves, Military personnel, Sailors, Spanish-American War, 1898, Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937

Infantry kitchenMeissen. Infantry kitchen

Swiss aviator Theodor Schaeck.

C.W. Billings

SA conductor Fuhsel. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Anefo photo collection. Education of Dutch Mariniers in Camp Lejeune (North-Carolina, USA). undated. Camp Lejeune, North-Carolina, United States of America

British at Etaples, Feb. 1915

Anti-aircraft gun on "AMIRAL AUBE"

French aviator âmile Dubonnet.

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. McClelland, Union officer, full-length portrait, standing, with right hand in coat, facing slightly left. On verso: Photographed by A. Shaffer, Federal St, Youngstown, Ohio, In album: U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865, no. 98, surrogate p. 25 (upper right), Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. McClelland, Samuel M, 1833-1872, Military service, Military officers, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

M. Vaniman

Vera Cruz dead, putting casket on caisson

Photograph of Coast Guardsmen Ronald and Donald Riggens. Who's Who Alike as two peas in a pod, Coast Guardsmen Ronald and Donald Riggens, twin brothers from Dearborn, Mich., confuse their instructors no end at the U. S. Coast Guard's Manhattan Beach Training Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. Here the Coast Guard twins, Ronald at the left, are receiving instruction in semaphore and blinker.

Col. A.C. Blunt

Police arrest of Dolinger, Union Square, anarchist riot, New York

1St Lt. Harry D. Doherty, Left, Personal Equipment Officer For P-51 Mustang Fighter Group Of U.S. 8Th Af, Fits One Of The New Berger G-Suits To 1St Lt. George Rich, Fighter Pilot. The Ingenious Suit Was Designed To Combat 'Black-Outs' In Mid-Air (Airmen'

Man with guns , Firearms, Charlestown Navy Yard Mass.. Photographs of the First Naval District

On the line between the bladed and the totebo.

Norwegian prisoner, released from the Nazi detention camp Grini after Germany's capitulation. Here at Charlottenberg station.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Lady Chaffeur starting up her engine

Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 5 February 1931), British naval aviation pioneer. He was one of the first four officers selected for pilot training by the Royal Navy and was the first person to fly an aircraft from a moving ship. He also commanded the first British armoured vehicles used in combat. Transferring to the Royal Air Force on its creation in 1918, Samson held command of several groups in the immediate post-War period and the 1920s. His wife w

'A Sea Scout', 1944. The Scouting movement was founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908. A reference to 'Sea Scouts' appears as early as July 1909. From "Boy Scouts', by E. E. Reynolds. Collins, London, 1944

Thos. R. Marshall

US Civil War. Rear Admiral John Dahlgren standing by one of his inventions, a 50-pounder Dahlgren gun on deck of USS Pawnee, c. 1864. The Dahlgren gun, was a cast-iron muzzle-loading cannon with vastly increased range and accuracy, and became the US Navy's standard armament (BSLOC_2018_8_74)

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front in France. Waiting for the Arrival of Patients on a Hospital Barge. 1914-1918}. France

Photographic portrait of Frank Wild, the British naval officer and explorer, London, c.1916. Wild had just returned to Britain following his role as second in command during Ernest Shackleton's British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16. Date: 1800

The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859 Lieutenant Eardly Maitland, RA (seated left), and Colonel F.C. Maude, VC CB RA.

HIH Prince Sehzade Mehmed Ertugrul Efendi (1912-1944) - the last crown prince of the Ottoman Empire. Removed from Turkey by the British following the fall of the Sultanate and pictured here with his attendants on the deck of the British naval vessel HMS Ajax. January 1923

Gen. Leonard Wood & Col. Halstead Dorey, Polo Grounds, 1917

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