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THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE

Nationaal Archief, Collectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. (158-1721).Tanks kept in touch with the Infantry by carrier pigeons which were released and carried messages back.Het Britse Westelijk front in Frankrijk. Tanks... More

Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 ...

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text. Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14. Title from item.

Verteidiger der Foramestellung

BRITISH NAVY IN WARTIME

Beschrijving: .Airship starting off on patrol - they are always on the look-out for 'U' boats & enemy aircraft..De Britse marine in oorlogstijd. Het opstijgen van een verkennings luchtschip - zij kijken altijd ... More

Leslie William Bushby

Date of Birth: 3.6.1881.Date of Enlistment: 4.7.1918.Trade or Calling: Salesman.Born in or near what Town: North Sydney.Address prior to Enlistment: 169 Allison Rd, Randwick.Rank, Number, Battalion, Distinction... More

Fort Greble, R.I. - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Local Accession Number: PC 183..Description: Postcard photograph of 4 12 in. mortars at Fort Greble during World War I...Photographer: Unknown..Source: Donated by Jean Brannum Nichols..Size: 3x5..Medium: Print... More

King & Queen and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales

King George V, Queen Mary and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, taken during a visit to the Western Front in France. They are positioned in front of a large brick building with French windows. The King and Queen are ... More

The Maharaja of Barwani with ambulance cars [Merville, France]. Photog...

Reference: Photo 24/(219)..From the Girdwood Collection held by the British Library..This image is part of the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 ( http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en ) ..Date: 2 Aug 1915..See als... More

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank. Title from item.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.

Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918

Photographer: Thomas Frederick Scales .Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918.Dry plate glass negative .Reference No. 1/2-014078-G.Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Collect... More

Tommy enjoys possession of newly captured Hun trench

British soldiers at the old German Front Line, during World War I. In front of a mound and standing in a network of trenches are groups of soldiers, mostly smiling and laughing. They are all wearing large ponch... More

Sinaihalbinsel Ostseite: Wâdi Ṭâba. 1914.

Plate 86 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Title from item. Translated title by Library staff. Photograph taken from... More

Armor - Armor - Designing armor for American Soldiers. In the Armorer'...

Photographer: Publishers Photo Ser. Armor - Armor

Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe / A. Karpellus.

Poster shows a 16th century soldier holding up a flag with the Austro-Hungarian double-headed Imperial eagle on it. Text: Subscribe to the 4th Austrian War Loan. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte u... More

Armor - Armor - Designing armor for American Soldiers. In the Armorer'...

Photographer: Publishers Photo Ser. Armor - Armor

Sinaihalbinsel Ostseite, Insel Grêje oder Ǧezīret Farʻûn mit mittelalt...

Plate 87 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Title from item. Translated title by Library staff. Photograph taken fro... More

Sinaihalbinsel Westseite, Mündung des Wâdi Firân in die Küstenebene. 1...

Photograph taken from the junction of Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) downstream area with El Qa'a Plain close to the Gulf of Suez, looking west and showing the mountain range of Gebel Hadhid in the background... More

Sinaihalbinsel Ostseite, Ehemaliger ägyptischer Posten Nuwêbiʻ. 1914.

Plate 88 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Title from item. Translated title by Library staff. Photograph taken from... More

DCM 0479: V. Kohlert's Söhne One-Handed Flute in C, for the left hand

See DCM 478. This is made in reverse for a performer missing the right hand and/or arm. Instrument type: One-Handed Flute in C, for the left hand Medium: Grenadilla(?), nickel silver keys and ferrules.; 67.55 ... More

"Lapland"

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

"Lapland"

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

"Lapland"

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

Robert French - Steamboat, Lough Erne

Sticking with the same collection as yesterday, the catalogue lists this image as "Steam Boat on Lough Erne, Belturbet, Co. Cavan" - implying that it was taken in County Cavan. However, we have a similar Lawren... More

Colonel Gorgas

Photographs of the Construction of the Panama Canal

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Aircraft C636, crashed upside down between two trees with three men standing in front of it. The aircraft bears the skull-and-crossbones insignia of 90 C.T.S., based at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Cor... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Reproduction of a photograph of a Royal Flying Corps ambulance outside the Quinte House Hospital. The ambulance, known as a Hungry Lizzie would have been stationed at the edge of the airfield during flying hour... More

World War I - Deseronto Archives

Group of airmen in and around a Curtiss JN-4 training aircraft, probably at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' training camps near Deseronto...One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, ... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

"Lapland" - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Children playing on the fuselage of a partially-dismantled, probably crashed, aircraft with a roundel symbol on the body. The detached wheels of the aircraft (one without a tire) are visible in the foreground ... More

"Lapland" - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Trooper Bisdee and unidentified family members

ID number: P02939.05.Photographer: Clifford .Date Made: December 1900.Tasmania: Group portrait of Trooper (Tpr) John Hutton Bisdee VC (third from left with dog) and his family on Tpr Bisdee's return from South... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Three men walking around a crashed aircraft with skull-and-crossbones insignia, the symbol used by 90 C.T.S., based at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto. The aircr... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Airman standing in front of one of the barracks buildings at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps at Deseronto. ..One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, during th... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Four airmen holding rifles over their left shoulders, with a building behind them. Probably taken at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps at Deseronto. ..One of a set of photographs... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Four men in uniform sitting on planks outside one of the barracks buildings at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto...One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, ... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Reproduction of photograph of two Curtiss JN-4 training aircraft. The one nearest the camera bears the number C696, a roundel, and a castle on the tail fin. This was Captain Vernon Castle's favourite aircraft (... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Copy of aerial photograph of Curtiss JN-4 aircraft C187, with a man [Lieutenant Ned Ballough] 'wing walking': standing with his arms on the top of the wing and his feet behind the back of the cockpit. This airc... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

"Jimmie Russell": photograph of young boy holding a small dog outside a wooden house...One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War which came into the possession of the S... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Four airmen posing in and around a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft, with hangar buildings in the background. Probably taken at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps at Deseronto. ..One of a se... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

"Lapland" - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Local Accession Number: PC 137..Description: Lapland was a passenger steamship that sailed a route from the U.K. to New York. It served as a troop vessel in the First World War...Photographer: Unknown..Source:... More

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Unidentified woman with a man's hand behind her right shoulder...One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War which came into the possession of the Stapley family and whic... More

HMS DonegalTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard ...

HMS DonegalTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard no 9109, Our Navy series III

HMS DuncanTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard n...

HMS DuncanTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard no 9183, Our Navy series IV

Slagskepp HMS SwiftsureTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilett...

HMS SwiftsureTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard no 9083, Our Navy series II

Edward H. Watts

Date of Birth: 9.11.1884 .School: St George's Boys' School Brandon Hill Bristol Eng..Emigrated to Aust.: ca. 1905.Date of Enlistment: 1.12.1917 .Trade or Calling: Manufacturer .Born in or near what Town: Clifto... More

Slagskepp HMS CommonwealthTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oil...

HMS CommonwealthTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard no 9183, Our Navy series IV

Army Relief Society garden party, Governors Island National Monument, ...

Color guard drills at the Army Relief Society garden party. Fort Jay is in the background.

Raising Honor Flag of 3d Liberty Loan on Treasury

Slagskepp HMS TemeraireTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilett...

HMS TemeraireTuck´s Post card, Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Oilette" postcard no 8673, Our Navy series VIII

Liberty Loan tank

Aldershot - recruits on practice hike

Photograph shows British soldiers at Aldershot army camp in England during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library... More

Gen. Ivanoff

Photograph shows Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov (1851-1919) who served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Gen. Litzmann

Photograph shows Karl Litzmann (1850-1936), German World War I infantry general and later a Nazi official. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

French Aviator Burri

Photo shows Swiss aviator Ernest Burri who flew for the French in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Crown Prince -- Germ. i.e., Germany

Photograph shows German Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951) with two other soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

Gen. Sir. I. Hamilton

Photograph shows General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853- 1947) who led the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title... More

Liberty Loan Poster

Mme. J.J. Jusserand

Photograph shows Elise Richards Jusserand, born in Paris, France to American parents, who became the wife of Jean Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States during World War I. (Source: Flickr Comm... More

German hospital train

German Military aviator starting

ANDREA DORIA, Italy

Photograph shows the Italian battleship Andrea Doria which served in World War I and II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Liberty Loan poster

British armored autos in France

Photograph shows British soldiers and cars in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham ... More

Count von Bernstorff of Germany /

Medium close shot of Count Johann von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the U.S. (1908-1917), sitting and talking with an unidentified man in a car.

Col. E.M. House

Photograph shows American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor Edward Mandell House (1858-1938) also known as Colonel House. He was a foreign policy advisor to President Woodrow Wilson during World War... More

Gen. von Gallwitz, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German general Max Karl Wilhelm von Gallwitz (1852- 1937) who served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Fo... More

Kaiser & sons

Photograph shows the sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Wilhelm, German Crown Prince; Prince Eitel Friedrich, Prince Adalbert, Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, and Prince Joachim. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Mrs. Wynne in Western Trenches

Photograph shows Hilda Wynne of the British Red Cross with soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: G... More

Lt. Von Mucke in Berlin

Photograph shows Lieutenant Hellmuth von Mucke (1881-1957), a German Marine officer who served aboard the Emden in World War I; taken May 1915, possibly later. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from ... More

Ocean liners: Rev. H.R. Salisbury

Photograph shows Rev. Homer Russell Salisbury (1870-1915), administrator and Superintendent of the Seventh Day Adventists for India, who died during the sinking of the SS Persia by German torpedoes on December ... More

German Caddies

ANDREA DORIA, Italy, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Italian battleship Andrea Doria which served in World War I and II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: ... More

Gen. Fieldmarshall von der Goltz

Photograph shows Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916), a Prussian Field Marshal who served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Kaiserin gives roses to departing officers

Photograph shows Augusta Viktoria of Schlewig-Holstein (1858-1921) last German Empress and Queen of Prussia with German soldiers. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Gen. Neidenoff, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Bulgarian General Kalin Neidenoff (1865-1925), who served as Minister of Defense of Bulgaria during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Gen. Sir Beauchamp Duff

Photograph shows General Sir Beauchamp Duff (1855-1918) who served in the British Indian Army in World War I as Commander in Chief. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

German & Austrian prisoners in Russia

Photograph shows German and Austrian prisoners in Russia during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Gen. Sir H. Smith-Dorrien

Photograph shows General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (1858- 1930), who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

German -- Captured French Plane -- Morane Sport type

Lenna station under första världskriget.

Railway stations in Sweden

Maharaja of Bikaner, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows General Sir Ganga Singh (1880-1943), the Maharaja of the state of Bikaner, India. He served in the British Imperial War Cabinet during World War I as its only non-Anglo member. (Source: Flickr ... More

Gen. Mackensen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows August von Mackensen (1849-1945), a German soldier and field marshal who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on t... More

Gen. Von Reckowski i.e., Rekowski

Photograph shows General Otto Gynz von Rekowski (1850-1915) who served in the German Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

[Market, Wash. D.C., World War I period]

Liberty Loan group, Hotel Gordon

Capt. Meyer-Waldeck

Photograph shows Alfred Wilhelm Moritz Meyer (1864-1928), a Navy captain and Governor of the German controlled port of Tsingtau (now Quingdao), China during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Crown Princess Cecilie [and] Duchess Brunswick

Photograph shows Crown Princess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), wife of German Crown Prince William (left) wearing her Dragoon regiment uniform and Victoria Louise of Prussia (the Duc... More

German Kaiser at review

Princess Viktoria Luise and Crown Princess of Germany

Photograph shows Crown Princess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), wife of German Crown Prince William (left) wearing her Dragoon regiment uniform and Victoria Louise of Prussia (the Duc... More

Gen. V. Mudra, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Karl Bruno Julius von Mudra (1851-1931), who was a Saxon General of Infantry in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

German Army - Balloon corps

German Trench Telephone Station

German "Arrow" aeroplane -- Ziegler type