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Soldiers in Defensive Positions

Photographs of military encampments and fortifications from various war periods, illustrating strategic positions and landscapes of conflict.

Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virginia, captured by 18th Army Corps, June 15, 1864. Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.
Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virginia, captured by 18th Army Corps, June 15, 1864. Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.
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Second World War. After the fighting. Soviet Union. Graves for fallen relatives of the German Wehrmacht
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The Wilderness Battlefield 1864 Unknown There is still much to learn about the role of the camera during the Civil War. One day we may know more about some of the war’s most intriguing field photographs: the macabre studies of skulls and unburied bones discovered by an unknown photographer in the Wilderness battlefield where Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had fought to a bloody draw in May 1864. It seems likely that these photographs date from the immediate postwar period, during cleanup operations. Printed from negatives that were probably unintentionally solarized during development in the field, the photographs appear illuminated by an unearthly light and are, in part, tonally reversed: the black sky becoming an appropriate symbol for the terrible place called Wilderness, second only to Gettysburg in the number of Union killed, wounded, and missing.. The Wilderness Battlefield 306601
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Hirtzbach, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, first-line trench: under observation , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Hirtzbach , Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France Tranchée de première ligne : en observation). Work scene, forehead, trenches, weapon, hairy, Daily life, First World War, France, Hirtzbach, 1st line trench, under observation
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US Civil War, Peninsula Campaign, April-August, 1862. Confederate Battery at Yorktown, Virginia, after Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston's withdrawal up the Peninsula, on May 3, 1862. Union warships are anchored in the background (BSLOC_2018_7_84)
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Italy.Military cemetery in Straussina 31.10.17. .
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38 cm mortar "Barbara" on Cost Alta. Recorded in May 1916..
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Other Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Military cemetery, 1917, Jerusalem, Israel
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Exercises of the Sturmbatalion in Levico.
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Surroundings of my 'an, Arabia (current Jordan) Cuisine of the French camp of Oueida , 1918 - Near East, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (January 9 -October 6) (French - Environs de Ma' an , Arabie ( actuelle Jordanie ) Cuisine du campement français d' Oueida). Military uniform, foreign presence, accessory, kitchen, front, hairstyle , headgear, man, army, Clothing, international relations, daily life, First World War, Human Starries, Society, Arabia, Maan, in front of Maan French camp of Oueida. The kitchen
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The shot hospital of K.U.K. Reserves pals in Gorizia (Görz) Destruction in Gorizia (Görz), probably recorded at the time of fourth pages
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Fort de Douaumont, France , 1919 - Meuse - Georges Chevalier and Fernand Cuville - (September 10-12) (French - Fort de Douaumont , France). Christianity, commemoration, front, fortress, war memorial, post-war period, Religion, First World War, France, Fort de Douaumont, monument raised to soldiers who died in the 137th infantry at the famous "rifle trench
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Gury, Oise, Picardy, France village of Gury , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Gury , Oise , Picardie , France Village de Gury). Military uniform, arms transport, agriculture , breeding, work scene, hay, rural life, wheelbarrow, peasant, front, man, Clothing, transport, economic activity, daily life, First World War, human beings, French, dry, village de dry
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Hospital of the K.U.K. Reserves pals in Gorizia (Görz) Destruction in Gorizia (Görz), probably recorded at the time of fourth pages
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Beaumont-Hamel , France , 1929 - French provinces - Stéphane Passet - (March 26 -May 18) (French - Beaumont-Hamel , France). Statue, sculpture, commemoration, war memorial, allies, post-war period, Art, First World War, international relations, Somme, Beaumont-Hamel, Le Monument Écossais et troitées de 1918
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Described Görzer Cemetery 31.10.17. .
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Boulogne-Billancourt, france smoke devices on the quay of September , (French - Boulogne-Billancourt , France Appareils fumigènes sur le quai du Quatre-Septembre). Quay, peace, bombardment, armistice, First World War, France, Boulogne, smoke devices
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Photo collection First World War. Fire brigade exercise with handling in the courtyard of a building .. 1914-1918}
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'L'entrée du Fort de Troyon apres le bombardement de septembre 1914', 1915. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".
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French soldiers traverse a muddy route north of Tahure during World War One 1917
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Team insiders d.40.h.itd. In the forest Dolcok. .
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Solting screens of I.R.26. Nördl.Suloszrova in the background of the area cemetery with Österr. Trenches. .
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Scene of Gen. McPhersons Death. George N. Barnard; American, 1819-1902. Date: 1864-1866. Dimensions: 25.6 x 35.9 cm (image/paper); 41 x 50.8 cm (album page). Albumen print, plate 35 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Under Verdun, France , 1916 - Regions at war Meuse, Haute -Marne, Oise, Somme - Stéphane Passet - (February -30 July) (French - Sous Verdun , France). Animal transport, military uniform, snow, forest , wood, cart, camp, front, man, Transport, clothing, First World War, Human Starries, France, under Verdun, various
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Smoke ring tube for displaying smoke rings at the 30.5 cm mortars M. 11. Exercise square Villach. .
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German soldier at a riverside in the snow. A German soldier at a riverside in the snow. Left houses. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.
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Destroyed trees on the battlefield of the Chemin des Dames, in 1917, Aisne, France.
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Graves of fallen German soldiers of the Kriegsmarine, Anonymous, 1943 - 1945 photograph This photo is part of an album. Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print grave, tomb. cemetery, park-like burying ground
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Montfaucon-en-Argonne, France , 1919 - Meuse - Georges Chevalier and Fernand Cuville - (September 10-12) (French - Montfaucon-en-Argonne , France). Landscape, front, rubble, post-war period, Nature , Environment, First World War, France, Montfaucon, Cote 304, another side
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What the Patrol Occasionally Finds. Shipwrecked Sailors, Drowned in the Surf, and Cast Up On the Beach. Lifesaving Service Activities and Equipment, 1918. Department of the Treasury
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Statue of Ramesses at Saqqara, c. 1870s - 1880s. Antonio Beato (British, c. 1825-1903). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 20.3 x 26.2 cm (8 x 10 5/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.).
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Dam 156 (Grown over Basin and Burrow Pit). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Coucy-le-Chteau, Aisne, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Coucy-le-Chteau , Aisne , France). Military uniform, ruins, bombing, fortified architecture, fortress, medium age, rubble, man, Clothing, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, Art, Human Starries, France, Coucy Le Chau, ruins
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The wireless operator's quarters. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.
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Dummy plane stands beneath a shelter at Camp Chorrera, Panama circa August 1942 .
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French soldiers with bicycles, cross a stream; France, Western Front, World War One 1916
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The hospital in the 'Chailak Dere' below Big Tabletop. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.
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War album 95, picture 28370.
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Seppois-le-Haut, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Camouflages , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Seppois-le-Haut , Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France Camouflages). Camouflage, military uniform, food, domestic life, ruins, forehead, bombing, hairy, man, Clothing, daily life, First World War, human beings, France, Seppois le Haut, camouflages