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Historical Military Inspections

Vintage images of military inspections, troop movements, and solemn gatherings from the early 20th century, featuring soldiers in traditional uniforms.

Transporting the injured, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.
Transporting the injured, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.
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WWI soldier Allan McMillan writing at a desk at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England black-and-white prints, gelatin silver prints, documentary photographs, portraits
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Anefo photo collection. Kingdom Dutch Princess Irene Brigade Netherlands. village handle provides valuable information commander exploration unit (recite) approaching village. October 6, 1944. Netherlands
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Schützen-(Füsilier-)Regiment Prinz Georg (Königlich Sächsisches) Nr. 108, 1903, Dresden, Königlich Sächsisches Schützen, Regiment Nr. 108, Germany
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Noyon, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Noyon , France). Rear-fronst, religious habit, religious personality, Christianity, portrait, hairstyle , headgear, man, First World War, clothing, personality, religion, human beings, France, Noyon, portrait of Mr Arche-priest de la Cathedral
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Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) and Austrian generals, 1914
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Military in a pulpit..
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Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. An airman who has been put on a charge appears, under escort, before Group Captain C S Lott, the Station Commander at RAF Hornchurch, Essex.
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Djeddah, Arabia Commander Cousse, head of the French military mission of Hedjaz , 1918 - Near East, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (January 9 -October 6) (French - Djeddah , Arabie Le commandant Cousse , chef de la Mission militaire française du Hedjaz). Military personality, military uniform, foreign presence, shoe, public civil architecture, portrait, column, accessory, consulate , embassy, hairstyle , headgear, man, Personality, clothing, international relations, housing , architecture, human beings, Arabia, Djeddah, commander Cousse
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Russian army paymaster distributes wages during world war one 1915
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Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing the remains of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and his mistress Clara Petacci (1912-1945) after their execution by firing squad.
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50-cent Coast Guard Dog Decorated by S.P.C.A.. "Nora," a German Shepherd dog who rescued a Coast Guardsman, receives the bronze John P. Haines medal at the 78th annual meeting of the American Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City. The presentation was made by Sydney H. Coleman, left, executive Vice President of the Society, as Coast Guardsmen Evans E. Mitchell, right, of Chicago, Ill., holds his canine rescuer steady. Mitchell fainted while patrolling an isolated North Carolina beach at night. Nora's timely discovery and summoning of aid quite probably saved the Coast Guardsman from probable death from cold and exposure at the Ocean's edge. Previously, Coast Guardsmen at the Oregon Inlet, N.C., station had bought "Nora" from a neighborhood family for fifty cents.
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Sentry boxes in Germany (historical), Garde-Reiter-Regiment (1. Schweres Regiment), Baskets of Germany, 1913, Meißen, Gardereiter Schilderhaus
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Dolores Ibarurri (La Passionara) and Antonio Ortega Gutiérrez (1888-1939) a Spanish Republican military officer, during the Spanish Civil War
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British Legion To Police Plebiscite Areas - Contingent Of 1200 For Czechoslovakia -- The complete uniform of the British legion contingent photographed at the metropolitan police depot, London today October 5.A contingent of 1200 members of the British Legion is leaving London - probably on Saturday - for Czechoslovakia, where they are to help in policing the plebiscite areas they are to be fitted with peaked cabs and dark blue envelopes, and a policemen's cape. They will wear legion badges in their caps, and a golden brassard with the words "British Legion" in blue. Until their departure from London they are being billetted at Olympia. October 05, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Vintage Photograph. Motorcycle Policeman at Fort Wayne Indiana Police Department.
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ROME ITALY SEPTEMBER 1962 Italian soldiers in the 60s
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Private Henry McCollum with fellow soldiers of 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment on Lookout Mountain. After the Chattanooga Campaign of Sept.-Nov. 1863, they would invade Georgia in 1864 (BSLOC_2018_9_64)
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April 1937. The great poet León Felipe and his companion, accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Melero, contemplate the enemy lines from the trenches of the Casa de Campo. Photo: Heras.
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Constantin Mitrofanovitch Flórinsky, Officer of His Majesty Tzar Nicholas II (Jaeger Regiment) 1907 Constantin Mitrofanovitsh Flórinsky Russian. Constantin Mitrofanovitch Flórinsky, Officer of His Majesty Tzar Nicholas II (Jaeger Regiment) 270349
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07/31/1936. Militiamen of the Sports Battalion, in the Usera neighborhood, Speaking to their enemy with the loudspeaker of a gramophone so that they do not fight alongside the National Army.
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Colonel J.C. Wellborn circa 1910-1920.
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Detectives Examine Bodies of Murdered Schoolboys in Kenya A secretary takes notes as Superintendent Donald Cartwright, of the Criminal Investigation Department, watches the body of a schoolboy being examined near Nairobi, Kenya, today (Thursday).The body of another schoolboy lies behind the uniformed native policemen.The boys, 13,year,old Christopher Twohey and 15,year,old Geoffrey Danby, were apparently knifed when they discovered a Mau Mau hideout while pigeon shooting about seven miles north of Nairobi. April 21, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Warsaw. Jan Schuch police officer who points something on a map of the city. 1934. Poland, Warsaw
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Oberleutnant Plankensteiner. .
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Injured Russian Prisoner at German Slave Labor Camp at time of Liberation by U.S. Army, Nordhausen, Germany, photograph by Roberts for U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 1945
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Photo collection First World War. An Army Clerk Working in .. Office with Printed Walls. {1914-1918}
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Trampus. "Propaganda photography: Presentation of Lieutenant Davidenkov during a conferrance to the Grand Casino, Vichy". Vichy- Captain Below and Lieutenant Davidenkov / Russian officers of the Army of General Vlassov / Conference at the Grand Casino under the President / Of Mr. Creyssel, general secretary to propaganda, / on what they saw in RUSSIA. / The exhibition of Lieutenant Davidenkov. / In the background Mr. Creyssel, secretary general to / propaganda. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1943-07-12-1943-07-12. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144783-1
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Collaboration Netherlands .. In the penal camp in Vught, where the German with their henchmen have attempted to break the Dutch folk power for years, around 7000 Dutch collaborators and countrygraader are now being locked up. Soldiers of the Dutch shock troops are charged with the surveillance, especially from the 300 Dutch S.S. Men who have attracted the country-regressive German soldier suit. Under the leadership of the camp commander, the Major L. Mennes and his helpers, these prisoners are used OMO.a. to purify the surroundings of Vught from Landmijnen. They are dressed in blue-white striped prisoners, the same packages in which the good Fatherlanders were dressed under the German regime, who had the accident in the hands of the Germans. The prisoners receive the minimum civilian ration, which is also reduced because all delicacies have been taken off. Pending their final random, they take the days under a strict regime here. June 1945. Netherla
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Federico Johnson visits an area of the Touring Club Italiano Italian Club. 19020-1930
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Georg Sticker and an unknown companion, in front of a war memorial (). Photograph.
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veteran Nazi party members salute circa 1929
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The Eighth Army in the Klagenfurt Area of Austria, May 1945 Two soldiers of the Royal Military Police in the Klagenfurt area with Anna, a 4 year old Austrian girl with whose family the men were billeted. One of the soldiers is holding an Austrian mug of beer and a Tyrolean pipe.
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German soldiers and a horse wearing gas masks. World War One 1915
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Major S. Osterreth, Belgium ca. between 1909 and 1920.
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Former President George H.W. Bush inspecting dedication panel, just unveiled, for statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in wheelchair, during ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. National Organization on Disability founder Alan Reich is to the right of the panel
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French General Marie Emile Fayolle (1852-1928), World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 47, November 25, 1917.
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Aunay-Sur-Odon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Two Employees at Roundhouse, Proviso Yards, Chicago and North Western Railroad, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, December 1942