4,381 Artillery Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

And all those dead of Belgium and all that mighty procession of the sl...

German military officer astride artillery in a cemetery waving off a ghostly army. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Stars in the Dust Hea... More

British & captured gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows British soldiers with a captured German field gun (7.7 cm FK 96 n.A.) near Wytschaete, Belgium, during the Battle of Messines during World War I, on June 10, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons proje... More

ARMY, U.S. MOTORIZED ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN

Photo shows group with gun near National Mall with Washington Monument in background.

The ceremony of "Escort to the Standard", 114th Field Artillery, Lt. C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armed forces, military conflict, conscription, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Artillery tractor, Sec. of War Baker, July 1918

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peace. "The peace of the great release," Henley's "Rhymes & Rhythms", ...

Poster shows a shepherd with his flock near a barbed wire fence and artillery piece on an abandoned battlefield. Poster is probably an advertisement for a book by William Ernest Henley sold at Derry & Toms depa... More

Unidentified man in military uniform with rifle and violin standing ne...

A black and white photo of a man in uniform, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris... More

Maj. General Andrew Hero Jr., Chief of Coast Artillery, 1/22/26

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cannons] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group with demonstration of military artillery]

A group of men standing around a man laying on the ground. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. Views, street scenes, and types. "Abu-Kh...

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

Sec. Wilbur and Cong. Committee Inspect Sub V-1 at Navy Yard, 12/3/24

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Artillery] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Palestine disturbances 1936. Artillery tractor

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

[Artillery production] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

12002-22. 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

Gold Coast Battery in action. Bofors gun firing at target during train...

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the ...

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

Answering the call. Dozens of partially-machined tubes for medium cali...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne artillery cooperating with parach...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Trucks of the field artillery coming into bivouac ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Story. Coast artillery. In this coast artillery plotting room at ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Sighting a howitzer 75 mm gun during artillery pra...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Early morning sun gives little warmth to these me...

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

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Greek trainees with the Anti-aircraft art...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

105 howitzers just off the Mt. Aesten [i.e. Mt. Austen] front

Drawing shows four soldiers operating field artillery--a howitzer--on Mt. Austen during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. In his inscription, Brodie refers to Mack Morriss, Yank magazine correspondent. Si... More

The Mexican artillery goes into action at the annual Battle of San Jac...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antoni... More

Cannons at the Raymond Military Park in Raymond, Mississippi, which co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A big gun on Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, S.C

Photograph shows a group of soldiers standing next to a gun in the battery of a fort on Morris Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Attributed to Sam Cooley by collector. ... More

Fredericksburg, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A....

Row of cannons with men positioned to load each cannon before the next round of bombardment. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [... More

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). Big gun at Fort McAllister

Caption from negative sleeve: Fort McAllister. Photographer's name attributed in Civil War caption books. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3499A) and right (LC-B811-3499B) halves of a stereograph pair. Correspondi... More

Charleston, S.C. Blakely guns and ammunition in the Arsenal yard

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

District of Columbia. Officers and men of Company F, 3d Massachusetts ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. N... More

Dutch Gap, Virginia, vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library o... More

Black Regiment commemoration, Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Index data: 3-5, Laying wreath at monument: Sergeant Jackson places wreath, others are from the Youth Division, Rhode Island Minority Caucus; 7-10, Cannon salute by Newport Artillery Company; 11-14, Monument an... More

One reason why we did not go to Richmond

Stereograph showing Columbiad gun in Confederate Fort Darling on the James River at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia.

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Sherman's troops removing ammunition from Fo...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Sava... More

View from Confederate fort, east of Peachtree street, looking east, At...

No. B624. Hand written on back of mount: Rebel works in front of Atlanta, no. 4. Hand written on back of mount: Miller vol. 3, page 137. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on record for LC-USZC6-43 and LC-... More

N.Y. Artilleryillery group. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, w... More

Review of the Artillery of Shermans Co[rps]

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed in black ink on verso below title: Review by General Barry, at Savannah, of Sherman's Artillery. Inscribed above image: Pulaski Monument; Bull Street; Gen Barry's HdQrs (Moly... More

Learn to make and test the big guns - better yourself, enlist and lear...

Poster showing large coast artillery batteries firing. Ordnance recruiting poster, no. 2. Promotional goal: U.S. J22. 1919 ; U.S. B36. J2. 1919.

[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

Fort David A. Russell, Artillery Gun Shed, Tenth Cavalry Avenue & Firs...

Significance: Built in 1909 as part of an extensive construction program at Fort David A. Russell, the Artillery Gun Shed is one of many such small-scale buildings built to serve specific needs. In this case, ... More

Fort David A. Russell, Artillery Gun Shed, Tenth Cavalry Avenue & Firs...

Significance: Built in 1909 as part of an extensive construction program at Fort David A. Russell, the Artillery Gun Shed is one of many such small-scale buildings built to serve specific needs. In this case, ... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Rifled cannon in the Arsenal yard

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ten Inch Columbiad, and Magazine Entrance, Sand Bag Revertment (i.e. r...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to a cannon, and the fortified entrance to the magazine. No. 1001. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Forms part of: Civil War Photo... More

Vincent Lunardi Esqr., secretary to the late Neapolitan ambassador, fi...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi. Tissandier collection.

[James River, Virginia Another Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sulliv...

Stereograph showing a cannon inside the battery of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort David A. Russell, Artillery Barracks, Randall Avenue between Sixt...

Significance: The Artillery Barracks were constructed in 1903-04 to house some 120 enlisted men for the Army's Artillery Corps. Identical with the barracks building immediately west, this was one of many large... More

Fort David A. Russell, Artillery Barracks, Randall Avenue between Sixt...

Significance: The Artillery Barracks were constructed in 1903-04 to house some 120 enlisted men for the Army's Artillery Corps. Identical with the barracks building immediately west, this was one of many large... More

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, an...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

[Richmond, Virginia View of city from Belle Isle; gun in foreground]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Unidentified soldier in Union artillery shell jacket with revolver ho...

Case: Leather case with framing lines. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (L... More

Destruction of Rebel caissons - Public domain scenic drawing

Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, March 26, 1864, p. 200 in a series with Waud Nos. 54, 118, and 235. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.659) Forms part of: Morgan collection of... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union artillery uniform with red piping holdi...

Case: Leather geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : ... More

Fort Bliss, 7th Cavalry Barracks, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Cent...

Significance: This former 7th Cavalry Barrack was part of a large enlisted men's cantonment, most of which were demolished in 1934-1935. This U-shaped, one-story, brick masonry building was designed by War Depa... More

[Fort Monroe, Virginia The "Lincoln Gun," a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Monroe, Va.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

Charleston, South Carolina. View on Battery. Remains of Blakely gun de...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Petersburg, Virginia Railroad gun and crew]

Photo shows Robert E. Lee's railroad battery. (Source: David H. Schneider, "Lee's Armored Car," Civil War Times, Feb. 2011.) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[Unknown location. Parrott gun] - stereocsopic card

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U. S. Military Academy, Artillery Barracks, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: The Artillery Barracks is one one of a group of five Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson buildings that define the western and southern edges of Buffalo Soldier Field. The neo-gothic character of the buil... More

Richmond, Virginia. Captured siege guns at Rocketts

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arlington, Virginia. Big gun at Fort Woodbury

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Highland Brigade camp, looking south / W. Simpson, del. ; T. Picken, l...

Artillery battery with soldiers standing near the cannons, and the camp of Highland Brigade in the background; Balaklava Harbor and the remains of the old Genoese castle are visible in the distance on the right... More

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Centreville, Virginia Fort on the heights, with Quaker guns]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

[Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, vicinity. View from Beverly house...

Photo shows Fifth Corps artillery reserve in the distance. (Source: Grant and Lee / William Frassanito. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983.) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wildern... More

Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac--fought March 9th 1862 at Hamp...

Print shows a battle scene between the ironclads Monitor and Merrimac just offshore, also shows a Union ship sinking and rescue boats being put to sea from shore, as well as a Union artillery bunker, Union sold... More