Historical Military Sites

Photos capture abandoned military sites, artillery from the past, and battlefields illustrating the aftermath of conflicts during previous wars in diverse landscapes.

National Guard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ca. 1910.
National Guard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ca. 1910.
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Old chain and mortar, revolutionary relics, at West Point. 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.)
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Bosko. 6/X.1918.) .
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Winter position of the second battery of the field hypothesis regiment.
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Morris Island, South Carolina Closer view of same. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Forts & fortifications, United States, South Carolina, Morris Island.
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Jacob Evert Wesenhagen in his service home, 1905 - 1910 photograph Jacob Evert Wesenhagen, camp physician, at his temporary accommodation in section T. when the LawaSpoorweg in Suriname in the years 1903-1912. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname. Suriname photographic support railway, train Suriname
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On the Suez, January 1915. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Suways, Qanat as-, by Major John Rose.
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Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.
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Damage to exterior wall of Fort Sumter from bombardment, Charleston, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. , Vintage photography
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Camp of the German troops in Metz during the Frans-German War, H. Schnaebeli, 1870 stereograph Metzpublisher: Cologne cardboard. photographic support albumen print (military) camp with tents Metz
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Interior views of Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina, April, 1865. No. 4393, Title from item, Mounted with four other photographs, Photograph is half of a stereograph pair, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Forts & fortifications, 1860-1870, Cannon balls, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.
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Bridge over the Luscharibach. Recorded on 3.6.1916. .
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Petersburg, Virginia. Fortifications and bomb-proofs | Library of Congress
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Brandy Station, Virginia Colonel John R. Coxe, A.C.S., and lady seated before his log-cabin winter quarters at Army of the Potomac headquarters. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Coxe, John R, United States, Virginia, Brandy Station.
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09/30/1937. A view of the siege of Oviedo by the Republicans.
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Soldiers receiving medical care at Number Base Hospital in Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida. The patients are being admitted and treated in the receiving ward on June 14, 1918. The image is designated for official use only.
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War album 107, picture 32975.
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Part of Construction Corps Building New Military Truss Bridge Across Bull Run. Artist: Egbert Guy Fowx (American, born 1821). Dimensions: Image: 15 x 20.6 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.)Mount: 19.9 x 25 cm (7 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.). Date: April 1863.In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Fowx left his portrait studio in Baltimore, Maryland, and joined Mathew Brady's corps of photo-graphers documenting the War Between the States. In 1863, along with many other cameramen, he would leave Brady's employ to work exclusively for Alexander Gardner, Brady's former studio manager. This photograph is typical of Fowx's wartime photographs and shows engineering repairs on the famous Orange & Alexandria Railroad bridge over Bull Run creek, near Union Mills, Virginia.In every war, the efficient movement of troops, ammunition, provisions, and information to the front lines is the responsibility of military tacticians working alongside military engineers. During the Civil War, the efficient operation of t
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THE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY QUESTION
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Strasbourg, Heinrich, W., Luxembourg, Bernhoeft, Charles, Woerth, Wörth, Memorial of French cavalry soldiers in Woerth, recto - printed, This print is part of a cover with 100 prints., photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Denkmal der Französ Kürassiere von Moorsbronn, Monument des Cuirassiers Français dits de Morsbronn, height 215 mm, width 153 mm, Luxembourgish, 1859 - 1933, photographer, 1889 - 1894, paper, collotype, photoprint, cliché maker, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Arlington, Soldier's Graves, USA, 19th Century
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The sweat grape on the lace mountains. The commander in 1919.
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National cemetery, Arlington, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Arlington (Va.)
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Battle Field of New Hope Church, GA, No. 2. George N. Barnard; American, 1819-1902. Date: 1866. Dimensions: 25.4 x 35.7 cm (image/paper); 41 x 50.9 cm (album page). Albumen print, plate 26 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Oscar Asks Monoplan No. 3, on Ljungbyhed in Skåne, the summer of 1911.
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Monument to Custer and his brave men, Custer battlefield. 751. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Montana
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Interior of the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the Rebel soldiers "Fort Hell," showing Union soldiers on the breastworks.... 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
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Flag Staff Battery. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)
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Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, September 1862 1862 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish. Is This Death - Antietam Battlefield, September 1862 259608
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Capsize Drill, U.S. Life Saving CrewFort Canby,Wash.. Capsize Drill, U.S. Life Saving Crew
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Scene of General McPherson's Death. George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)
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Graves of British soldiers, Concord, Mass. , Monuments & memorials, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Revenue Cutter Bear, Landing mail at Nome, Alaska. Photographs of Revenue Cutter Service Cadets, Ships and Activities. Department of the Treasury
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Custer Battlefield National Monument -- Crow Agency, Montana, U.S. Hiway #87 Sheridan, Wyoming to Billings, Montana , Monuments & memorials, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Company street, Camp Stewart, Ga. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Kolonie Veenhuizen. Schutsluis II Beooste the sixth neighborhood. Southwest battle side of the upper sprin. March 30, 1881. Drenthe, Drenthe, Veenhuizen, Veenhuizen