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Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Morocco. Public domain artistic photography.

Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Morocco. Public domain artistic photogr...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

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

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

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

Ammunition squad 12' gun, Ft. Wadsworth

Ammunition squad 12' gun, Ft. Wadsworth

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

12th St. and Paseo, Kansas City, Mo.

12th St. and Paseo, Kansas City, Mo.

H128115 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Jones; June 7, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Kansas City, Mo.

Austrians firing 30.5 cm. gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Austrians firing 30.5 cm. gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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Gun on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gun on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Roosevelt's and Kermit's, four gun bearers]

[Roosevelt's and Kermit's, four gun bearers]

Photograph showing four African men standing with guns. Kermit Roosevelt is standing in the background. Theodore Roosevelt doesn't appear in the picture. J140268 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from Library of Con... More

Austrians loading 30.5 cm. gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Austrians loading 30.5 cm. gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #2

Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #2

Photograph shows Bulgarians taking guns to Çatalca, Turkey during the Balkan Wars. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Austrian 15 cm. gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Austrian 15 cm. gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows an Austrian army gun, probably 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 Grantham Bain ... More

French Siege gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

French Siege gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Recruits on RECRUIT - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Recruits on RECRUIT - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Margaret Murray Crumpacker, Commandant of the Women's Auxiliary for Naval Recruiting, addressing Navy recruits under the guns of the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New... More

110th Machine Gun Battalion, Major J.H. Washburn, commanding, Camp McClellan, Ala., Feb. 18th, 1918

110th Machine Gun Battalion, Major J.H. Washburn, commanding, Camp McC...

J228020 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Montgomery, Ala. Copyright deposit; Richards Film Service, Inc.; February 25, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45726.

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machine gun nests, captured by the American Forces, 1918

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machi...

Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 181. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

[Machine Gun Company E. outskirts of city

[Machine Gun Company E. outskirts of city

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Willliamsbridge to Gun Hill Road, Bronx, New York. After]

[Willliamsbridge to Gun Hill Road, Bronx, New York. After]

On slide (handwritten): "Bronx Parkway Commin. 'After picture.' Wmsbridge-Gun Hill Rd." (Label is on back of slide.) On slide (printed): "John Duer Scott" and "106 W. 52nd St., N.Y.C." (Slide manufacturer) Also... More

Military subjects. Breech of 12" gun

Military subjects. Breech of 12" gun

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

[Jesse James; last gun used, a 45 Schofield]

[Jesse James; last gun used, a 45 Schofield]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a firearm, gun, pistol, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in the Naval Gun Shop, Washington, D.C.

Scene in the Naval Gun Shop, Washington, D.C.

16-inch guns under construction. "Shop is idle today, employees numbering 1350 having been laid off yesterday." (Result of Naval Disarmament Treaty.) Title and other information transcribed from caption card an... More

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Navy guns at waterfront] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Navy guns at waterfront] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Aug. 26, day of big bomb in Jaffa. Military search for arms. Black Watch at Citadel with machine gun car, searching busses [i.e., buses] [Jerusalem]

Aug. 26, day of big bomb in Jaffa. Military search for arms. Black Wat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two boys playing baseball, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two boys playing baseball, Great Depression...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a person in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a person in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An attractive young lady operating an ingenious machine contributes her share to defense production. With a specially designed "gun" this girl sprays cement inside a "U" shaped rubber channel into which the glass for the rear window of truck cabs is inserted. The rubber channel makes the window water-tight

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An attractive young lady operating an ...

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.

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows through the Atlantic on its way to Liberia, Africa, the Negro crew of a 37mm anti-aircraft gun holds a shipboard practice session. The soldiers, members of a U.S. Army Engineer's unit, were especially interested in Liberia, a Negro Republic founded by their ancestors whose governmental system is patterned on that of the U.S.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows th...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. If jungle fighting becomes necessary, the members of an airfeild security detachment in Hawaii will be prepared. Shown above with machine gun (left to right) are: Private Wilfred Smith, Scotland Neck, North Carolina and Private Floyd Philpot, Jr., Hogansville, Georgia

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. If jungle fighting bec...

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

Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on a Thomson-Gibb welder in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania plant. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious ...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage assembly. America's war program requires increased production of these precision instruments of protection, designed to bring down the best-armoured, the fastest-flying enemy aircraft. Production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industrial engineering plant now converted almost entirely to military production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimet...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Inspection of thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage parts. With 300-plus-mile-per-hour planes for targets, antiaircraft assembly must be a precision instrument to permit the gunner to keep on his target. Inspection is as rigid as in instrument manufacture. 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. Inspection of thirty-seven millimeter anti-...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is cleaned in this bath before being painted. This yoke puts the gun on an even keel no matter what type of terrain the carriage rests upon. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millim...

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

Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarine. A crew swings a fifty caliber machine gun skyward to safeguard the underseas craft against a possible surprise air attack. Submarine rarely comes to surface during daylight hours. The man in the left background is scanning the horizon through binoculars

Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarin...

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

Production. Naval gun mounts. A big naval gun mount chassis is coated with aluminum paint before proceeding to assembly operations in a Midwest plant. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. A big naval gun mount chassis is coated ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back the production drive. A die maker in a converted Kentucky watch case factory brings rare ability to the plant's new job of making compass cases, fuse baffles, machine gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back t...

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.

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man for looms, but he's one of Uncle Sam's defense workers now. Employed by a small Eastern floor waxer manufacturing firm, this worker now spends ninty-nine percent of his time working on small parts for gun mounts. Here, however, he's working on the remainder of the floor waxer stock left in the plant. Orders for the shop's peacetime products can still be filled from stock, but no new waxers are being made. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man f...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Manhandling a 37mm anti-tank gun into position is only one of the chores that young gun crews training at Fort Benning, Georgia take in stride

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Manhandling a 37mm anti-tank gun in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, 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. Not for your car, but for a much more vital machine: this tire is destined for use on a thirty-seven-millimeter gun mount, now being assembled in a factory which once produced locks and safes for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Not for your car, but for a much mo...

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.

Small part for a big gun. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard. This is one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

Small part for a big gun. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Na...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man for looms, but he's one of Uncle Sam's defense workers now. Employed by a small Eastern floor waxer manufacturing firm, this worker now spends ninty-nine percent of his time working on small parts for gun mounts. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man f...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine gun during a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine g...

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

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck convoy. The leathernecks are good at this. A member of a Marine Corps truck convoy, in training at New River, North Carolina, operates the elevation lever of an anti-aircraft gun

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck convoy. The leathernecks are g...

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

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium caliber gun rushed for the war production program in an eastern arsenal

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium ...

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. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

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 Story coast defense. The men and the guns defending America. Fort Story, Virginia

Fort Story coast defense. The men and the guns defending America. Fort...

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

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Admiral Woodward of the United States Naval Ordnance examining 120 mm gun

Washington, D.C. Admiral Woodward of the United States Naval Ordnance ...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Tightening chains holding gun mounts to floor of a truck

Detroit, Michigan. Tightening chains holding gun mounts to floor of a ...

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

A black and white photo of a cannon and a dog. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a cannon and a dog. Office of War Informati...

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

Reciprocal aid. American and British air forces work together in defense of a British airfield. A member of the Royal Air Force handles the anti-aircraft gun in the foreground with American fighting forces shown in the rear. Many airfields and much British equipment have been provided for American air forces under the British Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. American and British air forces work together in defen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anti-aircraft bofors gun in at position on a mound overlooking the beach in Algeria with a United States anti-aircraft artillery crew in position

Anti-aircraft bofors gun in at position on a mound overlooking the bea...

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

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, full-length portrait, standing in front of her Denver home, wearing hunting outfit and carrying gun]

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, full-length portrait, standing in front of her De...

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

Last week, the government came and took this shopkeeper's gun away

Last week, the government came and took this shopkeeper's gun away

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Derringer gun John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.] Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

[Derringer gun John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.]...

Derringer: The gun John Wilkes Booth used to change American history was a .44-caliber pistol made by Henry Deringer of Philadelphia. One shot was all that Booth had. The gun was favored for its small size, it ... More

Arlington, Virginia Guns and gun-crews of Fort Richardson

Arlington, Virginia Guns and gun-crews of Fort Richardson

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Photograph of 1st Connecticut Artillery drilling at Fort Richardson. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen an... More

Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view

Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view

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

Richmond, Virginia. Captured guns - 19th century Virginia.

Richmond, Virginia. Captured guns - 19th century Virginia.

Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., April 1865, Confederate field guns. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3284B) and right (LC-B811-3284A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, ... 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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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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

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

[Charleston, S.C. Mounted gun, parapet of Fort Moultrie]

[Charleston, S.C. Mounted gun, parapet of Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Quaker gun mounted on bluff of Port Hudson, La.] / photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, La .

[Quaker gun mounted on bluff of Port Hudson, La.] / photographed by Mc...

Photograph shows a mounted gun at the bluff. Title devised by Library staff from information in Miller, v. 2, pg. 215. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV... More

Captain Gillespie and officers of flagship Philadelphia, Charleston Harbor, S.C.

Captain Gillespie and officers of flagship Philadelphia, Charleston Ha...

Stereograph showing group of Union officers posed next to a cannon in front of the wheel house on the deck of the U.S.S. Philadelphia. Part of the series, The War For The Union Photographic History. War Views. ... More

Captured rifled steel breach-loading Whitworth Gun, Richmond, Virginia

Captured rifled steel breach-loading Whitworth Gun, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph shows cannon with two soldiers and a civilian awaiting shipment on a wharf in Richmond, Virginia. Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-3278A, left, and LC-B811-3278B, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & C... More

The Gettysburg gun, and veterans of Battery B,

The Gettysburg gun, and veterans of Battery B,

Portion of the printed title, "and veterans of Battery B" has been crossed out. Copyright claimant: G. L. Hurd, Providence, R.I. Library of Congress copyright no. 14263, Sept. 9, 1882.

Richmond, Virginia. Captured guns - 19th century Virginia.

Richmond, Virginia. Captured guns - 19th century Virginia.

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

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22B, 200-Yard Gun Range Structure, Between Tenth & Eleventh Streets, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22B, 200-Yard Gun Ra...

Significance: Building 22B was built during World War II as part of the Building 22 Armament Laboratory complex. It housed a gun range designed for specialized testing of aircraft gun systems. Survey number: ... 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

Centreville, Virginia. Quaker gun - 19th century Virginia.

Centreville, Virginia. Quaker gun - 19th century Virginia.

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

U.S.S. Newark, gun drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

U.S.S. Newark, gun drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery, East Gun Emplacement, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery...

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

Eight inch Brooke rifled gun, weighing 21,987 lbs., in unfinished battery wood-hurdle revertment (i.e. revetment), anchored by grape vines

Eight inch Brooke rifled gun, weighing 21,987 lbs., in unfinished batt...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to a mounted cannon on the James River above Dutch Gap Canal. No. 1018. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Forms part of: Civil War ... More

Rebel fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

Rebel fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing by the mounted cannons inside a Confederate fort.

[Petersburg, Virginia Railroad gun and crew]

[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.

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 near I-80, Dover, Morris County, NJ

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 ...

Significance: Originally built as a depot for storage of powder and other armaments, during the 20th century Picatinny Arsenal became a leading facility for the research, development and production of munitions... More

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 near I-80, Dover, Morris County, NJ

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 ...

Significance: Originally built as a depot for storage of powder and other armaments, during the 20th century Picatinny Arsenal became a leading facility for the research, development and production of munitions... More

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 near I-80, Dover, Morris County, NJ

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 ...

Significance: Originally built as a depot for storage of powder and other armaments, during the 20th century Picatinny Arsenal became a leading facility for the research, development and production of munitions... More

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 near I-80, Dover, Morris County, NJ

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 ...

Significance: Originally built as a depot for storage of powder and other armaments, during the 20th century Picatinny Arsenal became a leading facility for the research, development and production of munitions... More

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 near I-80, Dover, Morris County, NJ

Picatinny Arsenal, 400 Area, Gun Bag Loading District, State Route 15 ...

Significance: Originally built as a depot for storage of powder and other armaments, during the 20th century Picatinny Arsenal became a leading facility for the research, development and production of munitions... More

Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer, captured by the Maritanza

Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer, captured by the Maritanza

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

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a Dahlgren gun on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

[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.

U.S.S. Newark, 6 in. gun and crew

U.S.S. Newark, 6 in. gun and crew

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861- Morris Island

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861...

Signed upper left: W. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Henry Gun Factory, Belfast, Northampton County, PA

Henry Gun Factory, Belfast, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-122 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery, South Gun Emplacement, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery...

Significance: This antiaircraft battery gun emplacement and its battery command center are associated with the hasty construction of nine 5-inch antiaircraft defensive positions in the months after the 7 Decemb... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. View of the land front, showing destroyed gun carriage in second traverse]

[Fort Fisher, N.C. View of the land front, showing destroyed gun carri...

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

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania John L. Burns, the "old hero of Gettysburg," with gun and crutches]

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania John L. Burns, the "old hero of Gettysburg,"...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsbu...

Significance: This structure was first built in 1802, "new-modeled" with Gothic exterior detailing added when the pews were replaced, the gallery removed, and the entry relocated. New windows were added in 1909... More

[Damaged gun inside Port Hudson after the siege in 1863]

[Damaged gun inside Port Hudson after the siege in 1863]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. No. 18 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for C... More

Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholts house

Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Glou...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, ... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard guns at U.S. Arsenal

Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard guns at U.S. Arsenal

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

Scene on board of a frigate - A group of men standing next to each other on a ship

Scene on board of a frigate - A group of men standing next to each oth...

Photograph shows a group portrait of seamen gathered around a mounted gun. The young boy seated on the gun is possibly the powder monkey. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The R... More

[Charleston, S.C. Gun on the Point Battery]

[Charleston, S.C. Gun on the Point Battery]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Washigton's [sic] headquarters [i.e. Ford Mansion], Morristown, N.J.

Washigton's [sic] headquarters [i.e. Ford Mansion], Morristown, N.J.

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

Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), shewing (i.e. showing) light house, broken gun, &c

Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), shewing (i.e. showing) light h...

Stereograph showing debris among the rocks below the beacon and chevaux-de-frise on the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 349, part of series: War Views. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LOT 13461, no. 32.... More

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