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Military Shelters and Positions

Photographs of soldiers in makeshift shelters and defensive positions during historic military engagements.

Soldier with pack on his back, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

Alarm post in the trench.

War album 20, picture 5206.

War album 95, picture 28231.

15 cm mortar in the sluderbach position.

Officer kitchen in the position of turk.i.r.62. .

Guest position of the FKR. 1/40 on HUM. .

Exercise with a flameper.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The Western front. A great dug-out in the garden of a house at Nesle which was occupied by a German Headquarters. 1914-1918}. Frankrijk, Nesle

Legion camp in Piaseczna (X). Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia. Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

War album 95, picture 28427.

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland. Timothy O'Sullivan; American, born Ireland, 1840-1882. Date: 1862. Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.7 cm (image/paper); 44.7 x 31.1 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 22 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Own base Ostrand Good Kotlice. .

An Austrian 420 mm Skoda cannon taken by the Italian Army, 1918, World War I, Italy, 20th century.

Östl.Galuzia: Minewerfer: (K.U.11.ktd.).

Report from the Karl May Museum in Radebeul near Dresden. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

30.5cm Mortar passes serpentine in the Gadertal, 21.6.1916. .

Recorded 15cm mortar. Podgorahöhe. Early April. 1918.

Soldier graves of the I.R.84 at the hunter house in front of the Walde Chojny. .

42 cm Haitzen position in the Canal Valley at Gugg. Masked train. .

War album 107, picture 32765.

Artillery, Bois du Chatelet, France, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

Presumably a photo gallery of a honing unit with field of application in Galicia.

9cm field cannon M75, Archduke Leopold Salvator left of gun, next to Archduke Colonel Reutter.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. An Idea of the Strength of the German Barbed Wire at Beaucourt. 1914-1918}. Beaucourt Sur Ancre, France

Red Cross laboratory at front ca. between 1909 and 1920.

10.4 gun.

Individual graves of the Infantry Regiment No. 62 east in the forest at Janòw. A grave bears the inscription "Stefan Péter". .

Clean up in a destroyed residential building.

Civilian Conservation Corps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Cemetery in Woścka; Wyczóżó Kowski, Leon (1852-1936); 1916-1919; 1920 (edition) (1916-00-00-1920-00-00);Legionowo (Ukraine), Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972), Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972)-collection, Wołczeck (Ukraine), Wyczółkowski, Leon (1852-1936). Memories from Legionowo 1916 (Kraków 1920), cemeteries, Polish graphics, crosses, forests, pines, purchase (provenance), winter

Parking of a war bridge - Equipage. .

War album 95, picture 28163.

Inspecting by its excellence General of the Infantry Succovaty v. Vezza at Korpskommando in Narajov.

War album 107, picture 32764.

Front visit of the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I. Archduzog Karl was at June 1916, upper-commander of a section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

Mountains Howitzer 1/3 on Kote 1238. Recorded on June 4, 1916..

Feldhaub. 10cm. Kol. Michalowka. .

Headquarters of Surgeon Jameson, Stoneman Station, Virginia. No. B190, Title from item, Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 7, p. 193", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.

Reinforced.Italy.28cm.germüt in Ronzina.29.10.17. .

Cervignano: ITL.Munition security. (Mid-May. 1918.).

Composing the LFA.Kanone. .

Landscape with smoke plumes in the distance. Landscape with smoke plumes in the distance. According to the inscription it concerns an attack on a fort. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.

Russian cavalry warehouse in the forest north of Widuch. .

Probably Italian soldiers at a mule: ambulance in the mountains; Ambulance de Montagne. Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.

War album 106, picture 32688.

On Patrol - Infantry Regiment No. 139Dubbing. On Patroil - Inf.-Reg. No. 139

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. trunk pulled workhorse MENNER. undated

Staying and performance of the 8th (4th) Battalion in the Dutch East Indies. Dutch military truck crosses a kali in a loaded place.

Dead in "the wheat field", Gettysburg | Library of Congress

Photo collection First World War. Zeppelin Brought Down in Potters Bar. The Flying Corps Royal Flying Corps (R.F.C.) Examining the wreckage. {1914-1918}. Great Britain, Potters Bar

FHR.ROSENBERG, TECHNIR.RAT, FHR. RUTLER at the Finanz W.Haus.Gy.Pat. .

'A Gendun Turf Slide', c1903. Artist: Robert John Welch.

21 cm guns left by the Italians at San. Pellegrino. (Dec.1917).

Sports field of the Infantry Regiment 4.

Square in the Walde Dolzok. .

30.5 mortar Earth deal Zawadow. .

30.5 cm mortar on Kote 1717, taken in April 1916..

Civilian Conservation Corps - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Turky teams while washing in the forest. .

Archduke Karl on the Kopilas and at the Street Luhi - Klausura north of Ruszpoliana, 13.9.1916 Archduke Karl War from June 1916, upper-commander of a sub-section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

Allatoona Pass Looking North, Georgia, 1864. George Barnard photographed the two railroad tracks north of Atlanta, after the Battle of Allatoona Pass, Oct. 5, 1864. Confederates were unable to dislodge the Union garrison of 2,000 soldiers guarding the supply depot. Note the fortification with slots for artillery on top of the left hill (BSLOC_2018_9_80)

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. In Delville Wood. 1914-1918}. France, Longueval

Crapeaumesnil , France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Crapeaumesnil , France). Rear-front, snow, ruins, panels, vegetation , botany, First World War, Registration , Information, Nature , Environment, France, Crapeaumesnil, Calvary kept as a historic vestige

LavaronePlateau 38 cm Haubitze.

Aviator viewing status at XIII. Korpskommando in Buczacz. .

Ration time for the Bersaglieri engaged at the front, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 30, July 25, 1915.

Austrian mountain troops on patrol; World War one. 1915

Makowka.blick on the Menczel.Russ.Schuted trenches. .

Fencing in Suffolk Made 1883-1887 England. Photogravure, pl. XXIV from the album Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888) . Peter Henry Emerson

A 305 mm cannon of the Italian Royal Navy used in the ground front, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 45, November 5, 1916.

Explosion of an apron, recorded on April 9th 1916.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. The German Offensive. Hogezers in Action at the Corner of a Wood. 1914-1918}. France

Hunting - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection First World War. British soldiers loaded bombs. 1914-1918}

Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who travelled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural funeral homes. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.

Two African American soldiers at Dutch Gap, Virginia, sitting in front of Major Strong's bomb-proof quarters, Nov. 1864 (BSLOC_2018_5_129)

Confederate entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads. No. 5035, No. "105.", Title from item, Title devised by library staff, Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.

Bucy-le-Long, Aisne, France fruit trees sawed by the Boches , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Bucy-le-Long , Aisne , France Arbres fruitiers sciés par les Boches). Military uniform, front, vegetation , botany, Clothing, First World War, Nature , Environment, France, Bucy-le-Long, fruit trees sawed by the Boches

War dog training.

Joint Graveyard of Honvedinfanterieregiments 15 and 14, taken up south of Moszczenica on 19 November 1915.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. population root spaces heavy forest cleaned up. November 1958. Guinea

Injury Caused by the explosion of a 30.5 cm projectile. Photographer: Flamm.

Main exercise of the storm course in Levico, explosions of hand grenades and mines.

Wood choppers' huts in a Virginia forest, on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Wood supplied U.S.M.R.Rds. under supervision of Maj. Brayton. Title transcribed from item, No. 181, Notation on recto: "J.R. Brayton.", In: United States military rail road photographic album, page 91. Earth construction, Virginia, 1860-1870, Huts, Virginia, 1860-1870, Woodcutting, Virginia, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies

Caldonazzo.erbartte Italian guns. .

Wehrmacht soldier at a water tower. A Wehrmacht soldier at a car, behind him is a water tower. This must serve as a lookout. Right of it: auf d. Wasserturm von Dongen.

Fire Lane Work. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Water supply for combat troops. 6.9.17. .

Breakfast Rest on 6.9.1916 Archduke Karl was from June 1916, upper-commander of a section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

Photograph of World War One Australian soldiers passing through mud fields at Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres region, October 1917

Flood-light on Vršič-Pass In a position of Section 4, with its covering removed; Julian Alps; photographer: 10. Armee, Kommando Rohr.

Officers of the rod of 12.Itd, in Jacoby.

Grave of a German soldier in the Argonne

Poll photo collection. Travel to Lithuania. Two soldiers patrol in the woods at the Poland-Lithuania border. 1934. Lithuania, Poland

Italian soldier cemetery in Casoni. .

03/31/1917. In the north of France. Site of a French long-range naval gun, hidden from the eyes of aviators.

Balance wave outside the waloon medium at Leufsta use.

Inspector Müntzig on hunting trip to the curtain.

American soldier loading gun in France during World War I, 1917

Blockhouse of the 5th battery.

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