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Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Gun with crew on Morris Island

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Gun with crew on Morris Island

Caption from negative sleeve: "Swamp Angel" at Morris Island, S.C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photog... More

The situation wood engraving, Library of Congress

The situation wood engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Ulysses Grant and Edwin Stanton near cannon labeled "Congress" aimed at Lorenzo Thomas and President Johnson. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 584 (1868 March 7), p. 160.

[Dominican Republic, 1871]: View of Ocoa Bay, the Azua port, or embarkadero

[Dominican Republic, 1871]: View of Ocoa Bay, the Azua port, or embark...

Naval cannon in foreground. Photoreproduction of watercolor. Watercolor by James E. Taylor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cannons; Wagons; Wharves; Water; F... More

[The gun and engine stores at the Imperial Naval Arsenal] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople.

[The gun and engine stores at the Imperial Naval Arsenal] / Abdullah F...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. No. 24. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy, Imperial Naval Arsenal, Navy Department, and bridges, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire... More

[Interior view of the Tophane Factory] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Interior view of the Tophane Factory] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frèr...

English Caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Gun factory, Gun finishing section. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 19. No. 88. In album: Imper... More

Breech of 8 inch gun and crew - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Breech of 8 inch gun and crew - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Title in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901) continues: ... sub-caliber practice, New York (armored cruiser). Attribution based on negative D4-20739. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "2" on negative. Detroit ... More

U.S.S. Iowa, 12 inch and 8 inch gun turrets

U.S.S. Iowa, 12 inch and 8 inch gun turrets

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020438. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and Pitch the Mascot]

[U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and Pitch the Mascot]

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

Gun on U-155 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gun on U-155 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Discovery of a rebel battery & camp on Vernon River, Ga., by the U.S. gun boats "Ottowa," "Seneca," "Pembina," & "Mary Andrew," under command of Capt. Rogers of the "Wabash" - Position of U.S. gun boats at the time of rebel battery opening fire - Dec. 11, 1861 / pencil drawing by William Crane.

Discovery of a rebel battery & camp on Vernon River, Ga., by the U.S. ...

Photograph of drawing by William Crane, done in 1861.

Looking down on 10 inch gun from crow's nest, "Washington"

Looking down on 10 inch gun from crow's nest, "Washington"

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

Summit of Barlow's knoll, Gettysburg

Summit of Barlow's knoll, Gettysburg

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Monument to 17th Connecticut volunteers at left. "894-G" and "106" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016593. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Anti-aircraft gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Anti-aircraft gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

U.S.S. Kentucky, quarter deck and after gun turrets

U.S.S. Kentucky, quarter deck and after gun turrets

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

Armenian volunteer soldier, with gun

Armenian volunteer soldier, with gun

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

A muzzle-loading gun - Public domain drawing

A muzzle-loading gun - Public domain drawing

(DLC/PP-1935:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Book of Drawings / A.B. Frost. New York : P.F. Collier & Son, 1904.

Jap[anese] gun commanding Seoul

Jap[anese] gun commanding Seoul

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Firing 12' gun, Fort Hamilton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Firing 12' gun, Fort Hamilton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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General Grant's coffin on gun carriage

General Grant's coffin on gun carriage

Photo shows funeral procession on April 26, 1912, for Major General Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912), son of President Ulysses S. Grant, former New York City Police Commissioner and commander for the Eastern Di... More

French Siege gun & motor tractor

French Siege gun & motor tractor

Photograph shows French soldiers in motor tractor which is pulling a large gun along the road at the beginning of World War I.

English gun taken at Ypres - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

English gun taken at Ypres - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows an English artillery gun taken during World War I at Ypres, Belgium. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

[Practice charge of the 8th Gun Cavalry during the punitive expedition in Mexico]

[Practice charge of the 8th Gun Cavalry during the punitive expedition...

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PREPAREDNESS PARADE, BIG GUN FLOAT

PREPAREDNESS PARADE, BIG GUN FLOAT

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Mexican Revolution - 1916. Machine gun platoon of the 16th Infantry - gun inspection and firing near Casa Grande, Mex.

Mexican Revolution - 1916. Machine gun platoon of the 16th Infantry - ...

213036 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machine guns; Mex. C-G- region; Army, US Infantry 1916;... More

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. GEN. BARNETT TESTING COLT'S AU...

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Gun Squad, Fort Slocum - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gun Squad, Fort Slocum - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American soldiers in a gun squad at Fort Slocum, a military post on Davids' Island, New Rochelle, New York. Fort Slocum served as a major recruiting station during World War I. (Source: Flickr... More

Gun crew of reserve officers loading the 12-inch mortars, coast defense artillery, Fortress Monroe, Virginia

Gun crew of reserve officers loading the 12-inch mortars, coast defens...

No. 19052. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. 14 INCH GUNS, READY TO GO TO PROVING GROUND

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. 14 INCH GUNS, READY TO GO TO PROVING GROU...

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American 158 MM gun on French front

American 158 MM gun on French front

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ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Public domain photograph

ARMY, U.S. MACHINE GUN TESTS - Public domain photograph

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

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

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Military subjects. 12-inch Barbet carriage rifle

Military subjects. 12-inch Barbet carriage rifle

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

Naval gun, 10/12/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Naval gun, 10/12/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

F.W. Wile and gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

F.W. Wile and gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Good inspects auto aircraft gun, 52429

Good inspects auto aircraft gun, 52429

Title from unverified data provided by National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at h... More

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. Victims of the flame gun. Masses of burned locusts under the bushes

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. Vi...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Killer boat used in whaling. The "killer boat" shown here is employed for the actual harpooning of whales. The harpoon gun may be seen on the prow. At left is the narrow "walk" from the captain bridge to the gun. When the whale is sighted, all movements of the "killer boat" are directed by the gunner

Killer boat used in whaling. The "killer boat" shown here is employed ...

Image source: Coast Guard photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informatio... More

[Ordnance Department gun carriages]

[Ordnance Department gun carriages]

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

Uganda. Entebbe. German gun on Park Square removed from the German cruiser "Emden"

Uganda. Entebbe. German gun on Park Square removed from the German cru...

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

Gun booth used to kill Lincoln. Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. The gun used by John Wilkes Booth to kill President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 is now on display at the Judge Advocate General's Office in the War Department. Edwin B. Pitts, Chief Clerk of the Judge Advocate General's Office, is shown holding the gun in this picture, 8/10/37

Gun booth used to kill Lincoln. Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. The gun use...

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

Chairman of Senate Military Affairs Committee inspects Fort Meyer troops. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Senator Morris Sheppard, of Texas, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, inspects the Machine Gun Unit of the 3rd Cavalry, USA, at Fort Meyer, Virginia He is shown with Col. J.M. Wainwright, Commandant at Fort Meyer,. 2/11/38

Chairman of Senate Military Affairs Committee inspects Fort Meyer troo...

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Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The government's test for velocity of the American and National League baseballs went out in the open air today, having learned all about the traits of the pellets within the laboratory. The Bureau of Standards transported it's paraphernalia to Griffith Stadium to let the baseballs be shot from their air gun and fly where they may. W.C. Mock, of the Bureau of Standards is shown making the test, 3/7/38

Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The govern...

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

A black and white photo of a man throwing a frisbee, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man throwing a frisbee, Iowa. Farm Securi...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near Detroit, putting the tracks on one of the giant M-3 tanks. These rolling arsenals weigh twenty-eight tons, are capable of speeds over twenty-five miles an hour and are equipped with 75 mm. field artillery gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as four mounted machine guns and various unmounted arms its crew may carry. The tanks are powered by 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engines

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Confederate monument and cannon on square in Yanceyville. Caswell County, North Carolina

Confederate monument and cannon on square in Yanceyville. Caswell Coun...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of the huge Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit. A worker is here installing a machine gun on an M-3 tank, one of the twenty-eight ton giants which mount four machine guns, two .50 calibre and two .30 calibre, a .75 mm. gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as an assortment of hand machine guns, and other weapons for use by the crew

Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of t...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near Detroit, putting the tracks on one of the giant M-3 tanks. These rolling arsenals weigh twenty-eight tons, are capable of speeds over twenty-five miles an hour and are equipped with 75 mm. field artillery gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as four mounted machine guns and various unmounted arms its crew may carry. The tanks are powered by 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engines

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian troops in East Africa. A series of photos taken on board a vessel of the Royal Indian Navy on active service in Eastern waters. Captured Italian equipment proves that they have been in action. Gunnery instruction is given to the men with a captured Italian Breda gun

Indian troops in East Africa. A series of photos taken on board a vess...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This man is checking the sub-assembly of a cupola to be installed on the top of a gun turret of one of these rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning ...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The top carriage of a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage receives the final assembly operations. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The top carriage of a thirty-seven millimet...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Argylls and Sutherlanders in Malaya Constant practice in patrolling jungle roads keep members of this famous regiment in full fighting trim for their special job. This photo shows men dismounting from their vehicle ready to set up their gun in a covered position.

Argylls and Sutherlanders in Malaya Constant practice in patrolling ju...

British Official photo: K-1401. No. BO-760. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Production. 155mm shells. Inspection after the finish turning of straight and profile diameters of 155mm shells in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Inspection after the finish turning of strai...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Heavy tonnage in Navy guns. Shifting the enormous guns in an eastern Navy yard required overhead pulleys and special flatcars. Guns are being produced in eleven Navy arsenals to arm the fleet of new warships for the new two-ocean fleet

Heavy tonnage in Navy guns. Shifting the enormous guns in an eastern N...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former silk weaver and loom repairman, this worker now assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a plant which made safe and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns defend America against her enemies. Soldiers at Fort Story, Virginia, operate a six-inch gun mounted on a barbette carriage

Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns defend America against her enem...

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

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of on...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels produced in a former automobile plant. Those pictured above are about halfway through the manufacturing process. Chrsyler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-airc...

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

Mitchell Field. Operating the side gun of an American bomber. The Axis view is often very fleeting, for the gun is fast and accurate, and the gunner brave, quick-witted and resourceful

Mitchell Field. Operating the side gun of an American bomber. The Axis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Mouthpiece forgings all ready for assembly in the magazines of 20mm anti-aircraft guns. A well known cash register manufacturer produced them in a large volume. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Mouthpiece forgings all r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard, one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an easte...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner awaits shipment to American armed forces--somewhere in the field. Converted to a large degree to production of precision gun parts, the factory which manufactures these oil burners ships most of them either to the Army or abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner ...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going over an obstacle during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going ov...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a horse, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Checking and inspection of thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts for America's armed forces in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Checking and inspection of thirty-s...

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Batawa, Ontario, Canada. A Czechoslovak worker, former shoemaker, working at a multiple machine gun in a Czechoslovak factory which was originally founded to produce shoes, but which now manufactures guns

Batawa, Ontario, Canada. A Czechoslovak worker, former shoemaker, work...

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Production. Aircraft. A precision machinist in the machine shop of a large Western aircraft factory. Since variation from perfection may mean a jammed gun, a faulty landing-gear or a stalled engine, men like this are now at an all time premium

Production. Aircraft. A precision machinist in the machine shop of a l...

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

Mouthpiece forgings for 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazines travel down the rows of milling machines that prepare them for the assembly line. The plant doing the work used to make cash registers. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Mouthpiece forgings for 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazines travel down t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalrymen manning a 50 caliber machine gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Cavalrymen manning a 50 caliber machine gun

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

Conversion. Farm implements to gun parts. A milling operation is performed on a Bofors gun slide in a large Midwestern farm implement plant now converted to war production. The plant also makes marine steam cargo winches for the Maritime Commission

Conversion. Farm implements to gun parts. A milling operation is perfo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, this young worker is one of the millions of Americans hard at work behind the men behind the guns. Site of these operations is a factory which formerly made locks and safes, before its conversion to production of guns and gun mounts. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sergeant Williams leading a machine gun squad in a maneuver

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sergeant Williams leading a machine gun sq...

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

North American Aviation Incorporated. Inglewood, California(?). A worker with a rivet gun is shown admiring a North American B-25 medium bomber

North American Aviation Incorporated. Inglewood, California(?). A work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Tail cone sub-assembly. In this scene one girl is operating a rivet gun as another girl bucks the rivets in the tail cone sub-assembly, a fabrication operation in the manufacture of the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Tail cone sub-assembly. I...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Glad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Bottle of blood plasma is hung on a "wounded" man's gun while a transfusion is administered at a collecting station

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military person with a firearm, machine gun, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wellington, Kansas. A huge naval gun bound for the West coast in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard

Wellington, Kansas. A huge naval gun bound for the West coast in the A...

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

Waynoka, Oklahoma. A huge naval gun bound for the West coast going through the yard

Waynoka, Oklahoma. A huge naval gun bound for the West coast going thr...

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Cannons at the Chickamauga portion of the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

Cannons at the Chickamauga portion of the Chickamauga & Chattanooga Na...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In November 1863, Union and Confederate forces fought for control of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a railroad hub known as the "Gateway to t... More

The last gun of the Arctic: Stewart Holland

The last gun of the Arctic: Stewart Holland

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3716

District of Columbia. Gun crews of Company H, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, at Fort Lincoln

District of Columbia. Gun crews of Company H, 3d Massachusetts Heavy A...

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

James River, Virginia Confederate gun emplacement above Dutch Gap

James River, Virginia Confederate gun emplacement above Dutch Gap

Photograph from 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... More

Petersburg, Virginia Heavy gun mounted on inner line of Confederate fortifications

Petersburg, Virginia Heavy gun mounted on inner line of Confederate fo...

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

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Significance: This building was a fine example of a typical mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia corner residence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS PA-1055... More

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Significance: This building was a fine example of a typical mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia corner residence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS PA-1055... More

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Krider Gun Shop, 133-135 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Significance: This building was a fine example of a typical mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia corner residence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS PA-1055... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22, Armament Laboratory & Gun Range, On flightline between Tenth & Eleventh Streets, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22, Armament Laborat...

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Fort Sheridan, Gun Shed, Ronan Road, Lake Forest, Lake County, IL

Fort Sheridan, Gun Shed, Ronan Road, Lake Forest, Lake County, IL

Significance: A Holabird and Roche building which is an excellent example of a late 19th century gun shed. The building contributes to the comprehensiveness of the 19th century historic building inventory at Fo... More

Gun deck, N. Carolina - Public domain scan / drawing

Gun deck, N. Carolina - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Outline of two ships on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-157. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1084) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Culpeper, Virginia Group of officers with gun at artillery headquarters]

[Culpeper, Virginia Group of officers with gun at artillery headquarte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Left to right: Lt. Samuel S. Elder, 4th U.S., Batt. E.; Lt. Alanson M. Randol, 1st U.S., Batts. E & G.; Lt. C. K. Wa... More

[Culpeper, Virginia Group of officers with gun at artillery headquarters]

[Culpeper, Virginia Group of officers with gun at artillery headquarte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Left to right: Lt. Samuel S. Elder, 4th U.S., Batt. E.; Lt. Alanson M. Randol, 1st U.S., Batts. E & G.; Lt. C. K. Wa... More

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister]

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister]

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

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Title inscribed upper left and right margin. Faint sketch of shipwreck on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-83. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1010) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

100 lb. gun on board the Confederate gunboat Teazer [i.e. Teaser], which was captured on the 4th of July, by the Meritanza [i.e. Maratanza]

100 lb. gun on board the Confederate gunboat Teazer [i.e. Teaser], whi...

Photograph shows a seaman sitting next to the 100 lb. gun that was captured by the U.S.S. Maratanza on July 4, 1862, on the James River, Virginia. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 482 Entered according to Act of Cong... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, showing traverse with dismounted gun]

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, showing traverse with dismounted gun...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Fort Fisher, N.C., January 1865.

Antietam National Cemetery, Shepherdstown Pike (State Route 34), Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Antietam National Cemetery, Shepherdstown Pike (State Route 34), Sharp...

Significance: On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 men and boys were killed or wounded during the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland. In early 1864, Maryland State Senator Lewis P. Frey introduced legi... More

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Anti-Aircraft Gun Position, South of Point Cruz Road & west of Coral Sea Road, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Battery-Anti-Aircraft Gun Position, S...

Survey number: HABS HI-279-AB Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

Stereograph showing a Confederate soldier in the battery with an English Armstrong gun. Three men stand behind him. No. 1234. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attribu... More

Fort David A. Russell, Artillery Gun Shed, Tenth Cavalry Avenue & First Street, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY

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

Edward Penfield - [Officer with fieldglasses by artillery gun]

Edward Penfield - [Officer with fieldglasses by artillery gun]

Drawing for magazine cover shows officer with fieldglasses by artillery gun. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in:... More

Rear Admiral Dewey's flagship "Olympia"

Rear Admiral Dewey's flagship "Olympia"

Print shows Admiral Dewey standing on his flagship, the "Olympia", at the time of the Spanish American War. Printed on lower left: Guns: four 8 inch, ten 5 inch quick fire, fourteen 6-pounders & 12 light guns.... More

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