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37th R.A. howitzer battery going to Maddox Hill to throw lyddite into the Boer Laager, S. Africa

37th R.A. howitzer battery going to Maddox Hill to throw lyddite into ...

Photograph shows British artillery during the Boer War. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Howitzer at Hero Land - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Howitzer at Hero Land - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the acid test for desert warfare in the maneuvers near Iron Mountains, California. Colonel R. Downing of DeKalb, Missouri, Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas, and Lieutenant M. Hutchison, Enterprise, Alabama. For firing power, the M-7 has a 105 mm Howitzer and a 50 caliber automatic gun. Iron Mountains, California.

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the aci...

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Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A dividing head provided with a clamp which fits over the muzzle end of the tube has been adopted for indexing. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Penns...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. These fast, easily maneuvered cannon carriers are typical of the new mechanized equipment being provided to American troops

Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862]

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

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

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

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

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

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

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

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

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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

A French heavy howitzer going into position to support the American attack on Cantigny

A French heavy howitzer going into position to support the American at...

Position of the old trench constructed in the battles of 1914 is seen in lower right corner, May 24, 1918. A535054 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Vergil J. Morris. A C-4. This record contains u... More

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne artillery firing a howitzer after landing in a military demonstration

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne artillery firing a howitzer after...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. The new M-4 tanks which will soon be hurling their might against the Axis roll toward the end of the production line in the Schenectady, New York, plant of the American Locomotive Company. M-7 mobile howitzer carriages are also made in this plant

Production. M-4 tanks. The new M-4 tanks which will soon be hurling th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tank, military activity, armed forces world wat two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Howitzer being loaded into the new C-82 at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. The specific function of this plane is to land heavy military loads safely on rough fields near battle points. Note twin boom tail. Plane has wing span of 106 feet, and carries tricycle landing gear

Howitzer being loaded into the new C-82 at demonstration of equipment ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Loading howitzer 75 mm gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Loading howitzer 75 mm gun

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 Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chinese soldier smiling proudly by his newly acquired weapon, a 75 pack howitzer

Chinese soldier smiling proudly by his newly acquired weapon, a 75 pac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field howitzer in foreground]

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field ...

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

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain drawing

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain drawing

Pencil sketch of buildings on the verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0304) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862]

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

[Unidentified soldiers of 5th Ohio Cavalry Company with horses and mountain howitzer]

[Unidentified soldiers of 5th Ohio Cavalry Company with horses and mou...

Frame: Thermoplastic. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Rick Carlile, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part... More

Fort Riley, Kansas. Dismounting howitzer 75 mm guns after a day of artillery practice

Fort Riley, Kansas. Dismounting howitzer 75 mm guns after a day of art...

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

Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech block of the giant howitzer into place. The screw threads help the block to withstand millions of foot pounds of pressure caused by the exploding charge

Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech...

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

Fort Story coast defense. A sixteen-inch howitzer at Fort Story, Virginia and fighting men who operate it

Fort Story coast defense. A sixteen-inch howitzer at Fort Story, Virgi...

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

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

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

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, firing on the Fort Sill, Oklahoma artillery range, provides a mass of heavy, high-angle firepower

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, fir...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. M-4 tanks and M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll off the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. A portion of an M-7 shows in the right foreground, followed by three M-4's and another M-7

Production. M-4 tanks. M-4 tanks and M-7 mobile howitzer carriages rol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tank, military activity, armed forces world wat two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field howitzer in foreground]

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field ...

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

[Mountain howitzer of the 5th Ohio Cavalry Company]

[Mountain howitzer of the 5th Ohio Cavalry Company]

Case: Leather; birds and grapes design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Rick Carlile, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Con... More

Two-and-a-half ton prime mover towing a 105 millimeter howitzer along the Algerian beach. Troop ships can be seen in the background

Two-and-a-half ton prime mover towing a 105 millimeter howitzer along ...

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

Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. These fast, easily maneuvered cannon carriers are typical of the new mechanized equipment being provided to American troops

Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York & 12th Maine Regiments. (Butterfield's Brigade)

Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by...

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

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

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

Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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

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

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

American howitzer. Better to be behind than in front

American howitzer. Better to be behind than in front

Soldier stands before howitzer. J283568 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Over There Review, Inc. No. 46.

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

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

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

[The Peninsula, Va. A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862]

[The Peninsula, Va. A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's B...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

Swiss field Howitzer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Swiss field Howitzer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Production. M-4 tanks. Arc welders work on the partly-completed hull of a new M-4 tank at the Schenectady, New York, plant of the American Locomotive Company. M-7 mobile howitzer carriages are also produced in this plant

Production. M-4 tanks. Arc welders work on the partly-completed hull o...

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

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field howitzer in foreground]

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field ...

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

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862]

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

British clearing ground for Howitzer

British clearing ground for Howitzer

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

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne jeep and howitzer going into action after landing in a military demonstration

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne jeep and howitzer going into acti...

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

As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in each howitzer to check the breech mechanism. The firing is pictured. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being manufactured at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant, largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in e...

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

Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Lieutenant Guy H. Drewry, U.S.A. (center), aide-de-camp to Major-General Charles T. Harris, Jr., commanding the Aberdeen Proving Ground, pointing out important features of the eight inch howitzer to Chinese Major-General Dai-Fung King (right) and his aide-de-camp, Captain Zeit Wang (left). The two are members of the Chinese military mission to the United States

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Lieutenant Guy H. Drewry, U.S.A. (c...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

Fort Riley, Kansas. Artillery practice. Firing howitzer 75 mm gun

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]

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

Fort Story coast defense. A sergeant of the CAC [coast artillery Corps?] stands beside the muzzle of a sixteen inch howitzer at Fort Story, Virginia

Fort Story coast defense. A sergeant of the CAC [coast artillery Corps...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne jeep and howitzer going into action after landing in a military demonstration

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne jeep and howitzer going into acti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York & 12th Maine Regiments. (Butterfield's Brigade)

Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by...

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

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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

Fort Story coast defense. One of Uncle Sam's fighting men makes a minor adjsutment on a sixteen-inch howitzer

Fort Story coast defense. One of Uncle Sam's fighting men makes a mino...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." Being tested for desert warfare at Iron Mountains, California. It carries both a 105mm Howitzer and a 50 caliber gun. Lieutenant M. Hutchison of Enterprise, Alabama is at the extreme right. Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas is at post behind the Howitzer. Corporal Downing, whose home is Dekalb, Missouri, is in the turret

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." ...

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

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, firing on the Fort Sill, Oklahoma artillery range, provides a mass of heavy, high-angle firepower

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, fir...

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

Fort Story coast defense. Soliders of Fort Story, Virginia, load a sixteen-inch howitzer for target practice

Fort Story coast defense. Soliders of Fort Story, Virginia, load a six...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain architectural drawing

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain architectural drawing

Pencil sketch of buildings on the verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0304) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." Being tested for desert warfare at Iron Mountains, California. It carries both a 105mm Howitzer and a 50 caliber gun. Lieutenant M. Hutchison of Enterprise, Alabama is at the extreme right. Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas is at post behind the Howitzer. Corporal Downing, whose home is Dekalb, Missouri, is in the turret

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." ...

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

As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in each howitzer to check the breech mechanism. The firing is pictured. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being manufactured at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant, largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in e...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Alternate series LC-USE638- Image source: General Electric; G-006 DC, 2047. Negative copied from print in lot. Title and other information from caption... More

Chinese soldiers firing a 75 pack howitzer

Chinese soldiers firing a 75 pack howitzer

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glider used to carry utility and service units. Shown at demonstration of equiment held by United States Army Air Forces. Cargo space is large enough to hold a jeep and six men or a 75mm pack Howitzer, with crew

Glider used to carry utility and service units. Shown at demonstration...

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