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Airplane landing on flight deck of aircraft carrier with American flag in foreground

Airplane landing on flight deck of aircraft carrier with American flag...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stevedores loading cotton on to the freighter. Port of Houston, Texas

Stevedores loading cotton on to the freighter. Port of Houston, Texas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

VIRGINIA sailing for Mexico - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

VIRGINIA sailing for Mexico - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Submarine. Warship photograph collection

U.S. Submarine. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aircraft. Naval. The Vought-Sikorsky "Corsair" (F4U-1) Navy fighter, is one of the fastest warplanes in existence. Powered by a 2,000 horsepower Pratt and Whitney engine, it has a cruising speed in excess of 425 miles per hour. Its top speed is a military secret. Designed to protect the Navy's big bombers, the Corsair may be based on an aircraft carrier

Aircraft. Naval. The Vought-Sikorsky "Corsair" (F4U-1) Navy fighter, i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official U.S. Navy photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Ove... More

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A large ship with a lot of people on it, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. ... More

Airplane landing on flight deck of aircraft carrier with American flag in foreground

Airplane landing on flight deck of aircraft carrier with American flag...

Title devised by cataloger. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc... More

Launch of LAWRENCE. Warship photograph collection

Launch of LAWRENCE. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roll Call -- MAINE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Roll Call -- MAINE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of people boarding on a ship, ocean liner deck, port, steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber balanced on nose after crash landing on carrier flight deck, June 21, 1943]

[Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber balanced on nose after crash land...

Title from caption card and item. AM-CR-11-55053. Official U.S. Navy photo. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions. See printout for notes written by EBP. Unsure of source.

LANGLEY carrying 14 planes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

LANGLEY carrying 14 planes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

South Carolina - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

South Carolina - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on a Japanese frigate in the March 29, 1945 attack which cost the Japs nine ships, South China Sea

Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on...

Photograph by U.S. Army A.A.F. No. 58062 AC. Title transcribed from item. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.

[Navy fighter pilots in the ready room of their aircraft carrier before a strike somewhere in the Pacific in a recent battle operation]

[Navy fighter pilots in the ready room of their aircraft carrier befor...

U.S. Navy photo. No. 301763. From the collections of Encyclopedia Britannica.

Launch of LAWRENCE, George Grantham Bain Collection

Launch of LAWRENCE, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the launch of the US Navy destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DD 250) on July 10, 1920 at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provi... More

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A view of the forward part of a ship at the outfitting pier

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A view of the forw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A view of the forward part of a ship at the outfitting pier

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A view of the forw...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The Red Cross man is on the docks when the incoming Troopship approaches its dock. As the soldiers line the rail and shout him their greeting, he responds by throwing them packets of cigarettes and chocolate, which are always welcome. But it is not so much the gift as the spirit and the welcome which the soldiers like and appreciate. "It's the Red Cross that puts the 'soul' in 'soldier'" writes the editor of a "trench newspaper" published by an American aviation squadron in England

The Red Cross man is on the docks when the incoming Troopship approach...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. London. Group title: Canteen. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., on the Sea of Galilee and at Semakh. Flying boat "Satyrus" on Sea of Galilee showing a close-up

Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., o...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Str. "William E. Corey" - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Str. "William E. Corey" - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

"Glover" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021879. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., on the Sea of Galilee and at Semakh. Flying boat "Satyrus" on Sea of Galilee showing a close-up

Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., o...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Caption continues from catalog: Air route from the Sea of Galilee following the Jordan Valley down to the Dead Sea,... More

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tugs shifting Liberty ships

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tugs shifting Libe...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Soldiers on board ship, probably going to (or arriving in) Europe because they don't have overseas hats

Soldiers on board ship, probably going to (or arriving in) Europe beca...

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.go... More

The rudder and propeller of an EC-2 Liberty ship prior to her launching at a West coast shipyard

The rudder and propeller of an EC-2 Liberty ship prior to her launchin...

Image source: U.S. Maritime Commission, 2537. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More inform... More

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tugs shifting Liberty ships

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tugs shifting Libe...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delaware breakwater. Warship photograph collection

Delaware breakwater. Warship photograph collection

Lighthouse and rocky breakwater. Copyright by M.L. Stebbins. Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

LANGLEY carrying 14 planes - Public domain portrait photograph

LANGLEY carrying 14 planes - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Production. Parachute making. Every stitch on this basting machine means as much to Eva Matties as the parachutes she is sewing may mean to her fiance in the Army. Miss Matties also has two brothers in the service, one stationed at an air base, the other in an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Pacific. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Every stitch on this basting machine mea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roll Call -- MAINE, George Grantham Bain Collection

Roll Call -- MAINE, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More