communications

Reading the war news in Broadway, New York / /from a sketch by our spe...

Illustration from: Illustrated London news, 1861. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp of Signal corps nr. Yorktown

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: Lt's. Adams & Daniels. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.180) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Headquarters, New York Herald, Army of the Potomac, Bealton / negative...

Photograph showing the war correspondents of the New York Herald gathered at their camp headquarters near the Army of the Potomac in Bealeton, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war... More

[Signal tower on roof of house]

Signed lower right: ARW. Title devised. Inscribed lower right: Oct 1863. Formerly Waud no. C-164. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1091) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Air Safety Conference. Washington, D.C. More than 200 representatives ...

A group of men sitting around a table with a map. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

He is getting our country's signal - are you? Join the Navy.

U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing sailor with signal flag. Poster caption continues: For information apply at your nearest recruiting station or Navy League Headquarters.

The zeppelin raids: the vow of vengeance. Drawn for "The Daily Chronic...

Poster showing a soldier shaking his fist at a zeppelin following bombing.

[Emblem of Italy] / EHB ; M. Rusling Wood, Litho., N.Y.

Poster showing personification of Italy, depicted as woman wearing olive wreath in profile within a circular border. Copyright by the Committee of Citizens.

Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh.

Poster showing a battleship with searchlights flaring. Produced by Signal Corps USA and Committee on Public Information. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Decoding Chief at the State Dept. Washington, D.C., July 31. David Sal...

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

Member of FCC. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Norman S. Case, member of the...

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

Refuses to comment. Washington, D.C., June 8. Chairman Frank McNinch o...

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

Behind the headlines - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster depicting events behind newspaper headlines, showing images related to war. Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / C... More

Como un solo hombre / Arias Bernal.

Propaganda poster showing a stylized armed man with legs emerging from North America and South America.

News room of the New York Times newspaper Copy readers at the telegrap...

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Casablanca Conference at Casablanca, French Morocco, Africa. The "unco...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laurel, Maryland. Monitoring at the United States Federal Communicatio...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s FCC, radio broadcasting, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil painting "Communications" on elevator lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom H...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Petersburg, Virginia Mills; photographic wagon of Engineer Dept. in fo...

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

Bealeton, Virginia Group of military telegraph operators, headquarters...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

The signal station sketched near Culpeper C.H., Virginia / Ed. Forbes

"The signal station tree ; The signal station, near Culpeper Court House, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.142) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The signal station sketched near Culpeper C.H., Virginia / Ed. Forbes

"The signal station tree ; The signal station, near Culpeper Court House, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.142) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S. official war pictures / Louis Fancher '17' ; The Hegeman Print N....

Poster showing silhouette of a soldier operating a motion picture camera. Pro-Patria.

Signal Station on Pony Mountain

Semifore flag waved by soldier on top of platform. Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 632. Part of a series with Waud, no. 289. Gift, J.P. M... More

[Bermuda Hundred, Virginia Signal tower on left of the line near the A...

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

Signal officers, in attic of farm house, watching the army of General ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.81) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Signal officers, in attic of farm house, watching the army of General ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.81) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Halal], Afghanistan - Public domain banknote scan

A pictorial story leaflet printed on both sides. The recto shows a U.S. aircraft dropping many relief packets over Afghanistan and a man retrieving one of the packets. The verso shows the man opening a packet... More

[Halal], Afghanistan - Two pictures of a man with a book and a picture...

A pictorial story leaflet printed on both sides. The recto shows a U.S. aircraft dropping many relief packets over Afghanistan and a man retrieving one of the packets. The verso shows the man opening a packet... More

Field Telegraph Station - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing soldiers outside the tent used as a telegraph station at Wilcox's Landing, in the vicinity of Charles City County, Virginia. No. 2351. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War... More

[Taliban, do you think that you are safe ...]

A pictorial story leaflet with one picture printed on each side. The recto shows armed men standing in a cave while a fifth man sits on a rug eating. The men at the cave entrance notice a missile in the distanc... More

The signal telegraph train as used at the battle of Fredericksburg

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863, p. 53. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.532) Reference print available in the Civil War Draw... More

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...

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

Hill Field, Fire Station No. 1 & Communications Center, 5935 C Avenue,...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Appearance of the Union and Rebel lines at the "Front," from the Parap...

Landscape, with small figures indicating pickets, and cheveaux de frieze. A signal tower in tree in foreground. Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed below title on verso: Mem = It will be well to delinate the Pi... More

Interview between Grant and Pemberton, Confederate States of America

Print shows Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General John C. Pemberton discussing the terms of the capitulation of Vicksburg, bringing to an end the Union siege of the city.

Before F.C.C. Washington, D.C., March 16. Gerald King, President of St...

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

British navy at war / George Pulman & Sons, Ltd., Thayer St., London, ...

Poster showing scenes of naval activities, and small portraits of Admiral Sir David Beatty and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. No. 1.

"Khaki" magazine & cabled news sheet / designed by Frank Brangwyn, A.R...

Poster showing soldiers in battle, with caption: Your friends need you. Be a man!

[Biplanes] / Printed by Hill, Siffken & Co., Ltd. (L.P.A. Ltd.), Graft...

Poster showing biplanes in flight. Poster has no text, but blank space for text to be added. No. 78.

Radio conference, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. The Federal Communications ...

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

New Chairman F.C.C. Washington, D.C. Aug. 27. A new informal picture o...

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

World's Fair. View toward Hall of Communications

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United... More

FCC Chairman faces lens of television camera. Washington, D.C., Chairm...

A group of people standing around a camera. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F.C.C. Chairman and Senator Wheeler frame legislation to reduce member...

Two men sitting at a table with papers and a calculator. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This happens when you talk to others about ship sailings Let's make Ne...

Poster suggesting careless communication about ship departures may be harmful to the war effort, showing a face and a ship torpedoed by a submarine. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administrati... More

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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

Don't be a dope! Don't strip "trade-ins" No more good than the bag at ...

Poster shows Joe Dope and other men expressing displeasure at the sight of an older woman performing a striptease.

Lee De Forest's schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stati...

Reproduction number: A27 (color slide; page 1); A28 (color slide; page 2) The prolific American inventor Lee De Forest (1873-1961), is one of several contenders for the title "Father of Radio." Having obtained ... More

Bealeton, Virginia Group at tent and wagon of the New York Herald

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of ... More

[Bermuda Hundred, Virginia Photographer at Butler's signal tower]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Shows an African American man standing along with Signal Corps.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, U.S. Department of Health and Colu...

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Richmond, Virginia Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps]

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

[Virginia. Newspaper vendor and cart in camp]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863.

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Air Force Communications Systems (AFCS) Ma...

Significance: The AFCS Maintenance space provided shop and administrative space for the repair of communications and electronic equipment. The NAVAID shop provided shop and administrative space for field and pe... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Air Force Communications Systems (AFCS) Ma...

Significance: The AFCS Maintenance space provided shop and administrative space for the repair of communications and electronic equipment. The NAVAID shop provided shop and administrative space for field and pe... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5771 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force constructed Building 5771 as a permanent satellite communications facility in 1984. Buildin... More

[A Russian general, shaking with fear, telephones the Czar(?) who is a...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

For the freedom of the world during World War I

President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, April 2, 1917. K128218 U.S. Copyright Office. War message, Apr. 2, 1917.

[Washington, D.C. Central Signal Station, Winder Building, 17th and E ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unknown location. Wagons and camera of Sam A. Cooley, U.S. photograph...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Mills; photographic wagon of Engineer Dept. in f...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Conduct FCC hearings into alleged radio monopolies. Washington, D.C., ...

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

United States official films shown here / The Hegeman Print N.Y.

Poster showing the U.S. Capitol. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current build... More

Honor the brave Memorial Day, May 30, 1917.

Poster showing veterans in a Memorial Day parade. In memory of American soldiers of the wars of 1775-1783, 1812-1814, 1846-1847, 1861-1865, 1898.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N...

Poster showing a patrol boat, and an airplane shining a searchlight on the sea.

Hit the bull's eye!--Is your name on this list? Get out of your own li...

Poster showing small news photographs of the war effort by Hare in Leslie's, lists of hundreds of recent American volunteers, and addresses of recruiting stations. Photographs are captioned: All aboard; With ba... More

Six million cheers - for our sailor boys - the best ever!

Poster showing a sailor marching, cheered on by "Father Knickerbocker" representing Manhattan, and children labeled Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Richmond. United Cigars.

"Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congr...

Poster showing a man writing a postcard, with the U.S. Capitol in the background. To the left are samples of the free postcards that were distributed. United Cigar Stores Company. Saving daylight poster no. 3.

British Empire Union. "Once a German, always a German." Remember! Ever...

Poster showing caricatures of Germans, including wartime scenes of past violence, cruelty, and drunkenness, and then a charming German businessman of the day. Also a vignette of martyr Edith Cavell's grave and ... More

T.A.M. Craven, Chairman of the Federal Communications, looking over hi...

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

Using a telephone which is part of the underground communications syst...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I pledge allegiance and silence about the war

Poster promoting patriotism and suggesting that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing the American flag. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collect... More

Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attac...

Poster shows Joe Dope being shot through by enemy fire as he oils his machine gun.

Laurel, Maryland. Monitoring at the United States Federal Communicatio...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s FCC, radio broadcasting, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right! Joe Dope, friends, has done i...

Poster shows American soldiers firing at Japanese soldiers, who make fun of them.

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Entrance facade, Anne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a modernist architecture building, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Large communications tower outside Mesquite Memorial Stadium in Mesqui...

Public domain photograph of a spacecraft, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Destroy this mad brute Enlist - U.S. Army.

Propaganda poster shows a terrifying gorilla with a helmet labeled "militarism" holding a bloody club labeled "kultur" and a half-naked woman as he stomps onto the shore of America. 56004 (Class G) U.S. Copyrig... More

Wendover Air Force Base, Base Communications, South of Interstate 80, ...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-BQ Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

J. S. Hastings to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, September 07, 1861 (Spir...

[Petersburg, Virginia Signal tower at 14th New York Heavy Artillery he...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, Communications Building, First & A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N729 Survey number: HAER CA-170-TT

[Culpeper, Virginia Approach to town, with photographer's wagon in for...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863.

[Unknown location. Signalmen of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren's flagsh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unknown location. Signalmen of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren's flagsh...

Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pershing's crusaders--Auspices of the United States government / The H...

Poster showing Pershing leading troops, with spirits of crusaders floating above.

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Air Force Communications Systems (AFCS) Ma...

Significance: The AFCS Maintenance space provided shop and administrative space for the repair of communications and electronic equipment. The NAVAID shop provided shop and administrative space for field and pe... More

Mexican news. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Group of people on porch of American Hotel reading news of Mexican War.

[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters; an...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5771 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force constructed Building 5771 as a permanent satellite communications facility in 1984. Buildin... More

Sheridan receiving reports after the battle Sept. 19

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on the verso: Make with all of B[ ] out. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.394) reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file L. Forms part of: Morg... More

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...

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

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[A Russian general, shaking with fear, telephones the Czar(?) who is a...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. Group before the photographic tent at C...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Signal tower Fort Reno D.C. / Lt. J.R. Underdunk(?), U.S.A. del.

Drawing shows signal tower constructed at Fort Reno in Washington, D.C.

The press, the field, the sketchbook / Th. Nast.

Illustration shows various scenes showing a Harper's Weekly correspondent and artist at work in the field, sketching views and gathering information on the battlefield, in camp, and of contraband; two medallion... More

Secret service by William Gillette. during American Civil War

Caption: We must leave out something or we can't telegraph! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." No. 7447. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)