military service

Portrait photo of Major Hallewell & Captain Pearson

Major Hallewell and Captain Pearson, full-length portrait, posed facing each other in front of a tent.

Major General Sir R. Dacres, Captain Hamley & Colonel Adye - Roger Fen...

Two men seated and one standing in front doorway in building. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Aust... More

Colonel Wood & Major Stuart Wortley on the staff of Sir Richard Englan...

Three officers, one sitting and two standing, in front of stone building.

Lieutenant General Pennefather, C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Phot...

General Sir John L. Pennefather, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, seated on rock. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Major Pipon, Royal Artillery - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Major Pipon, full-length portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Lieutenant General Sir Harry Jones & Staff - Roger Fenton's Crimean Wa...

Lieutenant General Sir Harry Jones, full-length portrait, seated in chair in front of building, "Lieutenant-Colonel Bouchier, Assistant Adjutant-General, Lieutenant Cowel, R.E., A.D.C., and Lieutenant Jameson, ... More

Maréchal Pélissier, G.C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Maréchal Pélissier, full-length portrait, wearing hat, standing in front of building, facing right. Title transcribed from verso. Print marked for cropping with vertical line at left of image. "202" written or ... More

Capture of Fort George (Col. Winfield Scott leading the attack) / Chap...

Print shows American soldiers storming the gate at Fort George, Ontario.

Captain Page of the Paraguay expedition / From a photograph by Brady.

Captain Thomas J. Page, three-quarater length portrait, standing, facing right. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1859 April 2, p. 217.

[Views of ships and a mill] - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Broadside views of five ships. Titled devised. Inscribed below images: Minnesota Mill in Newport News Va. Hunter Woodis. Flagship of Butler. Inscribed vertically in right margin: Flagship of Buttler [sic] Gift,... More

Compliments of N.B. McLaughlen, U.S. Army Silsbee, Case & Co., Photogr...

Photograph shows U.S. Army military officer Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Gift; Connor Paul Younkin; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:151). Forms part of: Younkin collection of... More

William Barksdale. Brig. General Miss., American Civil War.

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. From Brady negative. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colonel Bully - Public domain architectural drawing

This appears to be a front view of the house depicted in DRWG/US - Waud, no. 1064 (A size) Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-138. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1065) Forms part of: Mo... More

[Brig. General John McAuley Palmer, Union officer, bust portrait, faci...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 2. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[Cadet J.R. Meigs, half-length portrait, seated, holding cap]

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; (DLC/PP-1962:R04). Unprocessed PR 13 CN 1962:R4

[Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Glass, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana Reg...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lieutenant John Mayer (Meyer), Union officer in the 32nd Indiana Regi...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 29. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

E.E. Ellsworth, late colonel of N.Y Fire Zouaves / E. & H.T. Anthony (...

Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct. Printed on verso: from photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. In album: Cartes de visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, p. 2... More

... Stringham, New York / E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), 501 Broadway, N.Y.

Officer Silas Stringham, full-length portrait, in full military dress with sword, standing, facing front. Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct. Printed on verso: from photographic negative from Brady's Nationa... More

The prayer at Sumter, December 27, 1860

Major Robert Anderson and soldiers praying around flag in Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 213 (1861 Jan. 26), p. 49.

Major General Grant, the hero of Fort Donelson

Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in uniform.

[Jefferson Davis, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John P. Hatch, Bv't.-Maj. General

John P. Hatch, half-length portrait, facing right. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bvt. Maj. General G.H. Chapman. American Civil War 1861-1865.

George H. Chapman, half-length portrait, seated, facing right; full-length portrait, seated in front of tent, facing left; full-length portrait, seated in front of tent, facing left, with six other soldiers.

[Full standing black soldier, rifle with fixed bayonet]

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of African American soldier standing in front of a studio backdrop. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.331) Title from Gladstone collection checklist.... More

[Captain William Borck, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana Regiment, fu...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 32. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[Captain William Urlan, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana Regiment, fu...

Misidentified as William Orlan. In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 35. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[2nd Lieutenant Julius Richardt, Union officer in the 24th Illinois In...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 47. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[Chaplain Charles A. Fischer of the 32nd Indiana Regiment, full-length...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 26. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

Bv't. Brig. General Horace Capron, col. 14th Ill. Cavalry.

Half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 4579.

Commodore Farragut's squadron and Captain Porter's mortar fleet enteri...

Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass"; some are identified as the "Colorado, 40 Guns", "Pensacola on the Bar", "Westfi... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Major General A.A. Humphreys & staff. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows Major General A.A. Humphreys, seated, and staff posed in front of a tent.

Genl Rawlings[sic]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Bust portrait of officer in uniform. Title inscribed lower left. Rawlins was promoted to Brigadier General, 11 August 1863. Purchase; Conner & Rosenkranz; 1986; (DLC/PP-1986:108).

Pickets of the First Louisiana "Native Guard" guarding the New Orleans...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 March 7, p. 369.

The ruins of Lawrence, Kansas / sketched by a correspondent.

Print shows ruins of buildings in Lawrence, Kansas, following attack by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 351 (1863 September 19), p. 604.

[Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms; African American soldier...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Rebel Negro pickets as seen through a field-glass

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Jan. 10.

Narrow escape of Genl. Meade 1864

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title (continued on verso): Some cavalry dashing out of the woods suddenly upon the genl. and his attendants came very near cutting off their retreat and making a ca... More

Bvt. Brig. General Charles Francis Adams jr.

General Charles Adams Jr., full-length portrait, seated facing front, in rocking chair next to three officers, also seated. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No digital image for LC-USZ62-7... More

[Field and staff of 39th U.S. Colored infantry, in front of Petersburg...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 7059. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgievskie kavalery i nagrazhdennye zolotym oruzhiem. Za vziatie ukr...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 23.

John H. Rock, colored counselor / photographed by Richards, Philadelph...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Feb. 25, p. 124. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Guilbeau, Placide - Age [Blank], Year: 1865 - Second Reserve Corps - L...

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations

[Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General, C.S.A., half-length portra...

Tintype made from glass neg. LC-B812-2708(?) was altered to show Cooper in his military uniform. Written on verso: Brig. Genl. D. H. Cooper, Miss. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Gojū kogō no tsubone gojūni tomoegozen

Print shows (top half) Kogō no Tsubone, the emperor's mistress, lying on the floor, playing a biwa while a man on horseback, Nakakuni, a messenger for the emperor, in the background is watching through the open... More

Ashbrook, Sylvanus - Age [Blank], Year: [Blank] - 13th US Colored Heav...

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War

Charles XII at Bender / A. Tholey, pinx.

Charles XII and his soldiers fighting Moldavian soldiers. 13955Z U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Wm. Finley & Co.

General Logan crossing the Bayou Pierre

Soldiers crossing the Bayou Pierre, Louisiana, alongside burning bridge, May 1863. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War / Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden. Chicago : The Puritan Press Co... More

[Colonel George Herbert Harries, standing near tent at the Rough Rider...

"Montauk Point" written on front. "Col. Harries written on back. Forms part of the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

Major General Miles and staff - at the front

General Nelson Miles and other soldiers on horseback. 41201 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.

[Corporal Isaiah Mays, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Detail of Medal of Honor men, Lot 11931, plate 69. (LC-USZ62-91683). Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Surrogate available as microfilm in P&P Reading Room.

Mississippi Second (Davidson's) Infantry (Army of 10,000), P-Y AND Sec...

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations

McKey, G W - Age [Blank], Year: [Blank] - Clarkson's Battalion, Confed...

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations

First Native Guards, Militia, H - Z - Louisiana

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations

General Pascual Orozco - Public domain portrait print

Gen. Pascual Orozco, half-length portrait, facing front. J159741 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.L. Esculera.

Lieut.-Colonel J.W. Mallet; later professor of chemistry, University o...

Lieut. Col. John William Mallet, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left. Illus. in: The Photographic History of the Civil War / Francis Trevelyan Miller - editor-in-chief. New York : The Review o... More

Terminus, Ramleh, near Alex. From the album: Photograph album of Majo...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Postcard, 'Field Service Post Card', WWI

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of the address side of postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James Allan Thomson's - Publicd domain, Museum of New Zealand

Palestine - Jerusalem. General Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem - Fra...

Military procession entering Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

New Zealand troops on a Route March from Featherston Camp to Greytown,...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two unidentified sailors, African American and white

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

Telegram. Museum of New Zealand collection

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Reading a salvage book by one of the Salvage men on the salvage truck ...

Photograph shows young man laying across the running board of a truck reading a book. Photograph by Amer. Library Assoc.

[803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship...

Photograph shows soldiers lounging on the deck of the U.S.S. Philippine during voyage back to the United States, 1919. Set title from Gladstone collection checklist. Caption from item. One of 16 photographs fro... More

[Maj. General John A. LeJeune, three-quarter length portrait, seated, ...

J243859 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Public domain photograph of army uniform, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), Virginia

12002-69. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Charles Willson Peale - [Commodore Joshua Barney]

Photographic reproduction of Charles Wilson Peale's ca. 1788 portrait painting of Joshua Barney; bust portrait, facing left, wearing the uniform of the Continental Navy. Original painting by Charles Wilson Pea... More

African American and white soldiers aboard a ship Gordon Parks

Photograph shows soldiers leaning over edge of ship; some of the African American soldiers wear 1st Cavalry Division patches. Forms part of: Visual materials from The Gordon Parks Archives in the Library of Co... More

Lt. Edward Haskell patrol - Public domain scan / drawing

Sketch shows an officer lying on the ground, his gun aimed in the air. The drawing surface is probably smeared with brown mud. Inscribed on cover sheet: sketched on Guadalcanal - mud is dropping to ground after... More

Corporal Jimmie Shohara has two ribbons: Good Behavior pre-Pearl Harbo...

Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bill Wilson, Dijon, France, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of William R. Wilson in U.S. Army uniform. No. W-2522.

[Tuskegee airmen playing cards in the officers' club in the evening]

Photograph shows left to right: Walter M. "Mo" Downs, New Orleans, LA, Class 43-B and William S. "Bill" "Bubblehead" Price, III, Topeka, KS, Class 44-C. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Tuskegee Airmen 33... More

A group of men in uniform standing next to each other. Honor guard 15s...

The russian army is the most famous in the world / Soldiers of the russian army public domain military photo.

Women In Military Service For America Memorial

Women In Military Service For America Memorial

Count de Rochambeau - French general of the land forces in America rev...

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5706 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Ame... More

Marion crossing the Pedee / Painted by W. Raney; Engraved by C. Burt.

Print shows Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" and his band of irregulars in boats preparing to cross the Pedee River. 407 U.S. Copyright Office. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JF.

Drummer Jimmy Doyle of Co. B, 18th U.S. Infantry Regiment Moulthrop, p...

Photograph shows identified drummer boy who was wounded at Chickamauga, Tennessee, in September 1863. Tax stamp on verso. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collec... More

Rebel defensive Works in front of Petersburg nr. Col averys house take...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on left and middle sheets: Ploughed field. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.301) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More

Union dead ready for burial in Fredericksburg, Virginia Brady, Washing...

Photograph shows soldiers and African American workers standing near caskets and dead bodies covered with cloths during Grant's Overland Campaign. Indecipherable notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 20... More

Georgia Army National Guardsman Spc. Daniel C. Strickland,

Georgia Army National Guardsman Spc. Daniel C. Strickland, an aviation maintenance specialist with the Marietta based, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, boards an aircraft prior to departing for Kosovo at... More

Certificate of Enrolment - A piece of paper that has some writing on i...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Certificate of Discharge - A document with a picture of a person on it

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sgt. Mark Zinn, a cannon crewmember with Bravo Battery

Sgt. Mark Zinn, a cannon crewmember with Bravo Battery 1 Battalion, 201st Field Artillery Regiment,, navigates the confidence tower on the obstacle course during the Best Warrior Competition at Camp Dawson, W.V... More

Chaplain Aryeh Lev at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem

Description: Text on photograph, “At Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. January 1944.”..Photographer: unknown..Date: January 1944..Medium: Black and white photograph..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( ... More

Chaplain Samuel W. Chomsky lights the traditional Hanukkah candles

Description: Text on back of photograph: Over 300 servicemen and veteran patients of all faiths were the guests of the Beverly Hills B'nai B'rith Men's Lodge at a USO-Jewish Welfare Board Hanukkah dinner and s... More

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", ci...

Description: Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Note: Text on back of photograph: Standing in the middle of the Dragons' Teeth," World... More

George B. McClellan. Major General commanding U.S. Army / Fabronius ; ...

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Confederates under Stuart crossing the Potomac at McCoy's Ferry t...

Canal and lockhouse in the foreground, troops crossing Potomac in background. Signed lower right: Theo R Davis. Title devised. A group of similar scenes by Davis were published in Harper's Weekly, 8 November 18... More

Löffelholz-Codex Ms-Berol-Germ-Qu-132 Fol 034r

Fol. 34r Deutsch: Zwei Daumenschraubem. English: Two thumbscrews.

Löffelholz-Codex Ms-Berol-Germ-Qu-132 Fol 046v

Fol. 9v Deutsch: Seite mit nicht erschlossenem Text, darüber ein getilgter, übermalter Inhalt. English: Page with untapped text, above a deleeted content.

Löffelholz-Codex Ms-Berol-Germ-Qu-132 Fol 055v

Fol. 55r Deutsch: Oben ein Glasbecher, Unten: eine Birne und ein Apfel. English: Ways to hide secret messages in a chicken egg.

The R.R. Cut, Seminary ridge, Gettysburg

Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed above image: Where Lt. Col. Dawes with the reserve assisted by two of Fowler's regts. captured a number of the enemy. Formerly Waud no. C-69. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/... More

Maj. General Sherman and staff This view was taken in the trenches bef...

Stereograph shows Sherman standing with officers next to cannon before siege of Atlanta in 1864. From the studio of Mathew Brady. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives in exchange for photographic sup... More

Captain Ricketts Battery - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower right: Near Charleston Va / March 10. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.372) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

General Sickles and Staff in a reconnoitering expedition along the ban...

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.544) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Reference print available in Ray, Pla... More

President McKinley and Admiral Dewey coming down the Capitol steps

66125 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau. No. 19994.

McClellan reconnoitering the Turnpike to Richmond from the Peach Orcha...

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch 34-. Pencil sketches of heads of two men on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.407) Reference print avail... More

Advance of Custer's brigade - Public domain drawing

Three men on horseback in foreground, the standard bearer most clearly delineated. Troops in background. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: Advance of Custer's brigade. Sergt. Barber carrying the b... More