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Historical Military Portraits

Vintage portraits of military figures in uniform from the 19th to early 20th century, showcasing formal attire, weapons, and a somber mood.

Unidentified sailor in Union uniform with sword | Library of Congress

Soldiers preparing for deployment during World War One.

Oberleutnant A.D. Anton Shoe. The photos served as the basis for WK1_AlB003_00886, an overview of the officers and military officials, which appeared for Christmas 1916

09/30/1912. Turkish infantry soldier.

'Les Etats-Unis dans la guerre; Le sergent aviateur americain Norman Prince, tombé au champ d'honneur, le 15 octobre 1916, au cours d'un raid sur Oberndorf', (1917). USA: First World War - American aviator Norman Prince who was killed on 15 October 1916, during a raid on Oberndorf. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Portrait of the Prussian General von Nostitz, c. 1860 - c. 1865 Photograph. visit card Part of photo album with 48 cartes-de-visiting offered to Marshal Graaf de Castellane. cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print historical persons. studio requisites ~ photographer. trousers, breeches. coat, cape. (military) uniforms. hacking and thrusting weapons (with NAME). hairdress. veteran. medals and other marks of military honour

Unidentified soldier , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Portrait of a Wehrmachor on a pasture (well with the Hague)

Portrait of a (presumably) Belgian soldier, kneeling with guns and feathers, Charles Emmanuel d'Hoy, c. 1870 - 1892 Photograph. visit card Part of album with cartes-de-visiting and cabinet photos of soldiers in uniform. Ghent cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print warfare; military affairs. division of armed forces. (military) uniforms. firearms: rifle. head-gear: hat Ghent

Peacekeeper, vintage engraving. Peacekeeper, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648396

Unidentified soldier , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

military uniforms Germany Bavaria infantry soldier in marching order full length 12th Royal Bavarian Infantery Regiment photograph by Robert Boromowsky New Ulm circa 1910 uniform battle dress Imperial army 20th century historic historical,

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Wehrmachigeriger in front of a brick wall (well with the Hague)

Montreux-Vieux, Alsace, France General Berdoulat, Commandt on 1st c .A .c. to Montreux Old , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Montreux-Vieux , Alsace , France Général Berdoulat , Commandt le 1er C .A .C. à Montreux Vieux). Military personality, military uniform, portrait, front, Personality, clothing, human beings, First World War, Montreux-Vieux, General Berdoulat, Commandt on 1st C.A.C. to Montreux Old

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a public building (well with the Hague)

Field Telephone Man, Germany

Dr Jerzy Bujalski lieutenant, doctor of the 3rd squadron of the cavalry of Legions. Front of the Polish Legions in Bukowina, Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

Portrait of a young man in a uniform. Part of photo album from the Matthes families, Doorman and van Thiel.

Stins Waldemar St. Leczinsky.

Train Guide Grossmann Gallus, Field Hunter Battillon NGO.9, allocated to the Gendarmerie commando Mauthen. .

Joseph A. Pettipas, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Serious Ernst Naznik, Infantry Catalion, 4/80 with the large silver tapecreport medal.

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Portrait of an unknown man in uniform, et al. Osborne, c. 1910 - c. 1920 photograph Falmouth photographic support gelatin silver print adult man. (military) uniforms

Military. Catering Official I.D.R. Hans Gottlieb The photos served as a basis for WK1_ALB003_00886, an overview of the officers and military officials, which appeared for Christmas 1916

carabiniere, 1910-1920

. 2/4th London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers Private Jones, from Leytonstone, Essex, died, aged 19, on 2 August 1918 at No 4 Casualty Clearing Station, Pernois, from wounds received whilst in action. He is buried at Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.

Lieutenant Arrowsmith, 7th New YorkS.M.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

01/01/1910. Hon. Mr. Antonio Tovar y Marcoleta, head of the Hunters division.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France sir. ... (son of the hairdresser) , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur. ... ( fils du coiffeur )). Military uniform, shipwrecked image, portrait, rear, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, France, Boulogne, Portraits, MR (son of the hairdresser)

Photo collection First World War. Prinz Joachim von Preussen. 1914-1918}. Germany

Photography.Photography in glass and frame, wood, brown, polished.Showing Emperor Wilhelm den II of Germany in Amiralsuniform.Marked with the following written text: Gewidmet Ihren Kamerade Der Schwedischen Marine Die Seemänischen Obermaate "S.M.S. Hansa" July 1913.neg.nr 4832. 1913 - 1913

During World War One, the future Duce served heroically with the Bersaglieri Date: 1883 - 1945

Gen. Wm. Mitchell

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Private, South African Infantryin full marching order. Side View.

Olof H. Olson, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Major Ing. Edmund Wanke, Mounting Referent of the 90th Infantry Division.

Unidentified 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Portrait of a man in uniform and boy, Bayley's Studios, 1890 - 1920 photograph This photo is part of an album. England photographic support. cardboard historical persons. boy (child between toddler and youth). (military) uniforms

Portrait of a man in military uniform, Hedvig Rosendahl, 1880 - 1920 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. Stockholm cardboard. photographic support historical persons. (military) uniforms

British General Mottram Andrews, 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot, Full-length Portrait Wearing Uniform, Seated Holding Sword in front of Military Tent, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

Portrait of an unknown man in uniform. .

At the Rue Boileau, a poilu, blinded in the war, learns to write. Date: 1915

Portrait of Lieutenant Bo Sigfrid Lindman, 1925 Portrait of Lieutenant Bo Sigfrid Lindman, Military Flyer.

Ourga, Mongolia two Cossack soldiers , 1913 - Mongolia - Stéphane Passet - (July 6-25) (French - Ourga , Mongolie Deux soldats cosaques). Military uniform, costume, foreign presence, exists in high definition, weapon, man, army, Clothing, international relations, HD, human beings, society, Ourga, Baikal Cossacks, Burial types

Crown Prince of Italy as Boy Scout

Man stands against metal support, exhibiting injured right leg; his arched foot rests on block. 1861 - 1871. Photographs, Cartes de visite. Manuscripts and Archives Division. United States Sanitary Commission, Medical aspects of war, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865 , Casualites

General Mehmed Paşa, Commander of the Imperial Ironclad Fleet / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Full-Length Portrait in Military Uniform, Photograph by George Gardner Rockwood, October 1898

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. Battle of the Menin Road. A their prisoner captured by Scottish Troops in the LOSSFUL Attack on Vampire Farm. 1914-1918}. Belgium, Menen

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Station in Indonesia: ml. Resistant, intervention .. the "Zuiderkruis" with troops from Indonesia in Rotterdam back. One of the members of the December 7 division has fed a crocodile as a reminder. December 16, 1949

Tadeusz Grabowski second lieutenant of the 2nd Uhlans Regiment of the Second Brigade of the Polish Legions. Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia. Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

Portrait of an unknown man in uniform with a bicycle in hand, anonymous, c. 1917 photograph France photographic support gelatin silver print adult man. (military) uniforms. bicycle

Photography.Personal photography in glass and frame of oak.Text on nameplate of silver brass: Commander M.M.Count H. W. Hamilton Head of Underofficers and Seafaries 12/10 1912 - 30/9 1918.neg.nr 4936-4947 1912 - 1918 (1912-18)

Portrait of Muhammad Hayat Khan, Deputy Commissioner in Punjab, anonymous, 1860 - 1880 photograph British India paper. cardboard albumen print historical persons (+ state-portrait). ranks in the army Punjab

Private Richard T. Gilbert of Co. D, 18th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform on crutches, right leg amputated. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Gilbert, Richard T, 1831-1910, Confederate States of America, Army, Georgia Infantry Regiment, 18th, People, 1860-1870, Crutches, 1860-1870, Amputees, 1860-1870, Prisoners of war, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Confederate, 1860-1870, Military uniforms, Confederate, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Confederate.

Portrait of an unknown man, dressed in a military uniform, Albert Greiner, 1861 - 1874 Photograph. visit card Amsterdam paper. cardboard albumen print historical persons. youth, adolescent. (military) uniforms

Chief Spencer during the fire , Fires, Fire fighters. Chelsea Public Library Archive Collection

Kastone Wenzlow, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Philip W. McGovern, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Dresden. 2. Grenadier Regiment No.11 "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia". Exercise

(Possibly Mauritz André) (Eventuellt Mauritz André)

Wehrmacht soldiers in the tram. Two Wehrmacht soldiers are in tram. Both wear glasses. Right of it: in Holland. 15.5.41. In der tram von The Hague Nach Scheveningen

Portrait of Pvt. Charles Mitchel, Company D, 107th New York Volunteers, U.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865), Company D, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Mitchel, Charles, Soldiers, Union, New York troops , 107th New York Infantry

(French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Le sergent Etienne Mesinger).

Portrait of a German sailor, 1940 - 1943 photograph Portrait of a sailor of the Kriegsmarine. Part of the group of loose photos belonging to the photo album about the Kriegsmarine 1940-1943. France (possibly) photographic support gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. sailor Netherlands. France

Col-Serg. J. Kelly, circa 1890, maker unknown.

Captain F. Mace N.Z.C., circa 1895, New Plymouth, by William Francis Gordon.

John J. Gunning, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Excellence FZM Viktor Graf v. ScheeearchStuel Commander of the 11th Army, Trento.

Roger Fenton, Captain Roger Fenton, West Middlesex, May, 1860, albumen print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative.

George M. Shannon, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

James L. Pomeroy, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

George Emmanuel Lillicrap, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Captain L.E.G. Oates by the Stable Door. Herbert Ponting (1871-1935). Silver gelatin print. 83.8 x 55.9cm

'La paix des Bolcheviks; Trotzky a Brest-Litovsk', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Beaufort, South Carolina General Isaac I. Stevens on same porch. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Port Royal (S.C.), Expedition, 1861, Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862, United States, South Carolina, Beaufort.

Photography.Personal photography in glass and frame of ec.text on nameplate of silver brass: Commander M.M.C.E.Holmberg Head of Underofficers and Seafaries 1/7 1927 - 30/9 1933.neg.nr 4936-4947.1927 - 1933 (1927-33)

Adolph H. Magnuson, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by Women's Land Army, National Service.

James L. Killoran, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Kady Brownell was the only female to receive discharge papers from the Union Army during the US Civil War. With the support of Rhode Island governor William Sprague, Colonel Ambrose Burnside appointed her 'Daughter of the Regiment' and color bearer so she could be with her husband Robert Brownell in the 5th Rhode Island Infantry. After Robert was seriously wounded, Kady was discharged with her husband (BSLOC_2019_2_153)

Colonel T. Cass, 9th Mass. Inf.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Photography.Photography in glass and frame depicting K. Palm.Chest view of man dressed in uniform, screen cap with black chapel, trailer ribbon.Shaved.PASSEPARTOUT B = about 50 mm.ram of light oak varnished, profiled.At the bottom brass tray with engraved name by signature: "K Palm" .Bake cardboard.neg.nr A 376 5:31 Use: Portrait of head of the artillery office.1926 - 1930 (1926-30)

1898. Cuban War. A young Cuban soldier.

Unidentified soldier , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Sculpted figure of man with rifle , Rifles. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Forest Service Uniforms. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Entre Castelfranco et Asolo, Italie Portrait d 'a soldat , 1918 - Italy - Fernand Cuville - (March -August) (French - Entre Castelfranco et Asolo , Italie Portrait d' un soldat). Military uniform, portrait, rear, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, Italy, portrait

Superior excellence of Kirchbach, 4th Armeecommando painting production.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by Timber Supply Department, Women's Land Army.

Paul Arzouhaljian , Uniforms. Leon Abdalian Collection

General of the Infantry Roth, Commander of the Old 14th Corps in Bruneck, at the end of November 1915..

Portrait of two young European men in tropical army uniforms, identified as being from the South African Medical Corps. They are standing on a path with buildings visible behind them. Original manuscript caption: Leo & his chumS.A.M. Corps.

Luftwaffe Military, 1942 photograph A Luftwaffe soldier in an open, bushy area. Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. the soldier; the soldier's life Netherlands

Thomas P. Galvin , Letter carriers. Leon Abdalian Collection

Three portraits of unknown Japanese soldiers, Anonymous, c. 1930 - c. 1940 photograph This photo is part of an album. Baryta Paper. paper gelatin silver print anonymous historical person portrayed. the soldier; the soldier's life

events First World War WWI military postcards postcard ""1914 - Weltkriegers Gruss"" (1914 - World War warrior`s greeting) Austria 1914,

Reims, Marne, Champagne, France Portrait of the Warrant Officer of the firefighters , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France Portrait de l' adjudant des pompiers). Military uniform, portrait, work clothing, firefighter, rear, Clothing, human beings, First World War, France, Reims, Warrant Officer of the firefighters

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