6,496 Military facilities Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

[Richmond, Virginia Ruins of State Arsenal from the Canal]

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Landplane Hangar Type, Wasp Boulevard a...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Landplane Hangar Type, Wasp Boulevard a...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Los Pinetos Nike Missile Site, Santa Clara Road, Los Angeles National ...

Significance: The Los Pinetos NIKE site played an integral role in the Los Angeles Defense Area from 1955 to 1958. Los Pinetos is unique among Nike sites in the Los Angeles area in that the launch, administrat... More

Los Pinetos Nike Missile Site, Santa Clara Road, Los Angeles National ...

Significance: The Los Pinetos NIKE site played an integral role in the Los Angeles Defense Area from 1955 to 1958. Los Pinetos is unique among Nike sites in the Los Angeles area in that the launch, administrat... More

Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Battery Control Administrat...

Significance: The Alaska Nike Hercules Missile batteries were the only Nike antiaircraft installations in the United States that fired missiles from their tactical sites; the other Nike batteries fired practice... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 238, Northeast corner of Clay Street &...

Significance: Building 238 is indicative of Frankford Arsenal's continued importance as the center of the United States Army's munitions-oriented research and design activities. Survey number: HAER PA-74-Z Bu... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type G, 205 Seventh Street, Honolulu, ...

Significance: THIS HOUSING PLANNED FOR THE NEW AIR BASE WAS DESIGNED "IN KEEPING WITH THE HAWAIIAN ATMOSPHERE AND TRADITIONS" WITH SOME BUILDINGS PLACED ON CURVING STREETS AND AMIDST EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPING PLANT... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type G, 205 Seventh Street, Honolulu, ...

Significance: THIS HOUSING PLANNED FOR THE NEW AIR BASE WAS DESIGNED "IN KEEPING WITH THE HAWAIIAN ATMOSPHERE AND TRADITIONS" WITH SOME BUILDINGS PLACED ON CURVING STREETS AND AMIDST EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPING PLANT... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type J, 701 Beard Street, Honolulu, Ho...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plants... More

[Camp Wilson, San Antonio, Texas], Panoramic Photograph

J217853 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. Budow; July 24, 1916; DLC/PP-1916:45163. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Camp Wilson was an instructional camp in Fort Sam Houston No. A.

Arsenal grounds, Richmond, Virginia, showing ruins and shot and shell ...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC... More

[Looking down the Valley of Running-Water Creek from near Whiteside's,...

Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 74. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644.... More

[Manassas, Virginia Confederate fortifications, with Federal soldiers]

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Two-Story Storehouses with Ramps, Port ...

Significance: Facility Nos. 393 and 394 were built, respectively, as an ordnance storehouse and a pipe and hardware storehouse in the last year of WWII. These two structures are significant for their unique des... More

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

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

Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele Coun...

Significance: The history of Wendover Airport spans a period of 50 years, and has gained historical recognition due to the critical role it played during World War II. During World War II events at Wendover pro... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Temporary Storage, Railroad Avenue near Ei...

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

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 5, 206 Tenth Street, Honolulu, Honolulu...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plant... More

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Interior view of breastworks on extreme left...

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

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & T...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Fort Barry, Bonita Ridge Access Road, Retaining Wall, Point Bonita, Ma...

Significance: The Retaining Wall is important for its support role in the seacoast defenses of the San Francisco Bay. It is a contributing element to the Forts Baker, Barry, and Cronkhite National Register Hist... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Inert Ammunition Storehouses, Avocet an...

Significance: Facility Nos. 170 and 171 were built as part of the development of the Naval Air Station at Ford Island in the period preceding WWII. They originally served as inert storehouses. These were two of... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Inert Ammunition Storehouses, Avocet an...

Significance: Facility Nos. 170 and 171 were built as part of the development of the Naval Air Station at Ford Island in the period preceding WWII. They originally served as inert storehouses. These were two of... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 319, Southwest corner of Eakin Street ...

Significance: Building 319 is associated with the continued growth of Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's principal manufacturer of small arms ammunition, during the twentieth century. Survey number: HAER PA-74... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Wood Barn, 3300 State Road P, Fest...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Warehouse 250, Aviation St...

Significance: The warehouse was built during the vigorous construction which resulted after the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. It was part of the supply system for the aviation operations of the Naval Air... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building Nos. 30-31, Bridge & Tacony Streets, Phila...

Significance: Building 30 served as the quarters for the post armorer. Building 31 is an addition, constructed in 1909. The two buildings are associated with the nineteenth and twentieth century history of Fr... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Generator-Fire Pump Building, 3300...

Significance: Building 115 is a non-contributing building to the overall historic integrity of the Facility because it was constructed after the period of significance for this Facility. The building was constr... More

Camp Casey, near Bladensburg, Md. / lith. by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimor...

Camp Casey showing 4th Regt. R.I.V. Col. J.P. Radman, 5th Regt. N.H.V. Col. Edward Cross, and Fort Lincoln in background. Copyright by E. Sachse & Co.

Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear

Signed below image: Will Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: This Baty was built in / 61 and is of immence[sic]strength-it was designed to protect the City from any attack by Gun boats coming ... More

Rebel fortification near Wynns Mill, Confederate States of America

Signed lower right: Alfred R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Stockade of pointed stakes; Rebel Camp Covered way. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862, pp. 296-7. Gift, J.P. Morg... More

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Moscow Radar Site Transmit...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tran... More

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Moscow Radar Site Transmit...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tran... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type D, 111 Beard Avenue, Honolulu, Ho...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plants... More

Oakland Army Base, Box & Crate Shop, Ukraine Street & Warehouse Road, ...

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.

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Vi...

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

The Curtis Estate, the scene of Washington's courtship & etc etc, Pamu...

Riverside scene, men unloading barrels from a ship, woman and child watch additional ships come in to shore, wagons for balloon gas generator and equipment in foreground. Ships, dwelling and soldiers milling ab... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, General Storehouse, Eighth Street at Av...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was constructed as part of what was an urgent buildup of industrial and support facilities at the Shipyard in anticipation of W... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, General Storehouse, Eighth Street at Av...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was constructed as part of what was an urgent buildup of industrial and support facilities at the Shipyard in anticipation of W... More

[Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town]

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

Vancouver Barracks, Paint Shop and Central Heating Plant, East Fifth S...

Significance: The Paint Shop/Fire House, Buildings No. 302 and 305 (currently Building No. 408), is a contributing building to the Vancouver National Historic Reserve District in Vancouver, Washington. The Vanc... More

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: Office Building 17 played an important support role in the shops complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. The building is significant as a contributing structure in the developmen... More

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 3, 213 Tenth Street, Honolulu, Honolulu...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plants... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Wilikina Drive & Kunia Road, ...

Significance: Schofield Barracks maintains historic significance in the areas of military history and architecture. Schofield Barracks played a primary role in training troops for the Pacific Theater of Operat... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road &...

Significance: Building 301 was constructed as the principal power plant for Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's main supplier of ammunition throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The buil... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 301, Southeast corner of Hagner Road &...

Significance: Building 301 was constructed as the principal power plant for Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's main supplier of ammunition throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The buil... More

Fort Sumter, December 9th 1863, Interior view of Three Gun Battery

Interior of fort. Soldier in foreground stands next to cannon, surrounded by equipment & supplies necessary to fire it. Other soldiers and cannons in background. Signed lower left of image : J.R. Key, Jun[e] 21... More

Interior of Fort Steadman in front of Petersburg, Virginia

Photograph showing the various supports used behind the wall of the parapet at Fort Steadman. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, ... More

Frankford Arsenal, South of Tacony Street between Bridge Street & trac...

Significance: Starting in 1816 as a storage facility, Frankford Arsenal grew into the United States' most well known ordnance manufacturers, specializing in small arms munitions. The arsenal was closed down in... More

Outside view, Fort Sumter, north face

Photograph shows a gun on top of parapet and gabions used as reinforcements along the damaged exterior of Fort Sumter. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3048. Forms part of: Visual materials from the paper... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Gen Butlers Head Quarters--Army of the James

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed within image: Gen Butlers Tent. Inscribed below title on verso: The Gen'ls Tent is the last one on the left, the House is used for the Adjutant Gen's Telegraph & other office... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building Nos. 242-246A, South side Craig Road betwe...

Significance: These nine buildings are part of a thirteen-building complex associated with the original and most elemental purpose of Frankford Arsenal, the production and storage of powder and munitions for th... More

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment; another view]

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

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Base Chapel, 350 Willow Street, Cantonme...

Significance: Building 611 is significant as an example of the World War II 800 series mobilization-type regimental chapel that used the optional laminated arch roof system rather than the wood-framed truss sys... More

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Base Chapel, 350 Willow Street, Cantonme...

Significance: Building 611 is significant as an example of the World War II 800 series mobilization-type regimental chapel that used the optional laminated arch roof system rather than the wood-framed truss sys... More

Oakland Army Base, Storehouse, Buna & Baku Streets, Oakland, Alameda C...

Significance: Building 88 was used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-F Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

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

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

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

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

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

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

Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Missile Launch, Anchorage, ...

Significance: The Alaska Nike Hercules Missile Batteries were the only Nike antiaircraft installations in the United States that fired missiles from their tactical sites; the other Nike batteries fired practice... More

Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Missile Launch, Anchorage, ...

Significance: The Alaska Nike Hercules Missile Batteries were the only Nike antiaircraft installations in the United States that fired missiles from their tactical sites; the other Nike batteries fired practice... More

[Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania] / photographed by B.F. Reimer, 615 &...

Photograph shows the Union training camp for African American troops in the distance. Title devised by Library staff from Gladstone's notes. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV34;Camp William Penn. "No.... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 119, Munroe Street between Hagner & W...

Significance: The building is a largely intact example of early ammunition magazine design and contributes to an understanding of the arsenal's early manufacturing and storage activities. It is the oldest stru... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof quarters, Fort Sedgwick ("Fort Hell")...

Photo shows graffiti on one of the planks over the door: "Lieut. W.B. Lapham, Maine Battery ... 9th Army Corps" (Source: Robert Maresz, 2013) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Peters... More

Head Quarters of General G.L. Hartsuff

Group of people, some with musical instruments, in front of headquarters of Gen. George Lucas Hartsuff, Centre Hill, Petersburg, Va. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collectio... More

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 6, 212 Eleventh Street, Honolulu, Honol...

Significance: The Type 6 duplex housing units were part of the development of Hickam Air BAse in the late 1930s and early 1940s as the Army Air Corps shifted its operations from Ford Island and utilized the lar... More

Dalton Trail Post, Mile 40, Haines Highway, Haines, Haines Borough, AK

Significance: Dalton Trail Post is associated with the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police and their role in maintaining order in the Kondike Gold Rush, and in the establishment of the United States-Canadian bord... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near ...

Significance: Facilities 155 & 155A are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Facility 155 was constructed as part of the major buildup of permanent shop facilities at the Shipyard in anti... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near ...

Significance: Facilities 155 & 155A are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Facility 155 was constructed as part of the major buildup of permanent shop facilities at the Shipyard in anti... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitter's Shop, Seventh Street near ...

Significance: Facilities 155 & 155A are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Facility 155 was constructed as part of the major buildup of permanent shop facilities at the Shipyard in anti... More

Harrison House, Virginia - Public domain historic place drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Smith per. Inscribed below image: Waud has photo of this. (Do this) Sketch of large man and rocky landscape on verso. Published in: Battles and Leaders of the... More