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A black and white photo of a lone tree in a foggy field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a lone tree in a foggy field, New Jersey. F...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dusting planes (agricultural sprayers) fly mainly at dawn and dusk when the wind dies down. Their extreme proximity to the ground can turn any sudden gust of wind into an accident. They hedge-hop over obstacles, must remain low to the very edge of the field to be effective. Former bootlegging pilots are supposed to be in demand because "they can miss a tree by inches and set down on a dime." Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

Dusting planes (agricultural sprayers) fly mainly at dawn and dusk whe...

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

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillerymen over one of the obstacles on the obstacle course at the anti-aircraft training center. Here we see the different phases of the jump; one man has just landed on the sandbags; two are in the air; and another man is gathering himself for the spring across

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillery...

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.

Pennsylvania--Lieutenant Emory H. Taunt, United States consul to the Congo State / / photo. by Thomson, London. Michigan--building of the Ladies' Literary Club at Grand Rapids. The collapse of the Panama Canal--a view of the cut through the Culebra Mountain, showing the great physical obstacles to be overcome. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps

Pennsylvania--Lieutenant Emory H. Taunt, United States consul to the C...

Two head-and-shoulders portraits, exterior of building, and cut through the Culebra Mountain. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1888 Dec. 29, p. 333.

Two obstacles that must be removed before Uncle Sam can drive on / Dalrymple.

Two obstacles that must be removed before Uncle Sam can drive on / Dal...

Print shows President McKinley standing on the roadside near a large rock labeled "Unsetteld Tariff Question", as Vice President Hobart and members of McKinley's cabinet attempt to clear the roadway by removing... More

A small airplane is flying over a field. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

A small airplane is flying over a field. War Production FSA/OWI Photog...

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

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Officers, as well as enlisted men, are required to train rigorously on the ani-aircraft training center's obstacle course to keep in pink of condition. Above, officers are shown completing the final obstacles of the tough course, topping the six-foot wall, the last part of the under-and-over obstacles, where men have to crawl beneath the fence and then top the barrier

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Officers, as well as enlisted men, are re...

Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ab... More

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Testing M-4 tanks. Down the steep side of a test hill, as well as up difficult ascents and over many obstacles, a mighty M-4 tank performs brilliantly during the trial runs at an Eastern manufacturing plant

Testing M-4 tanks. Down the steep side of a test hill, as well as up d...

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

High school Victory Corps. Boys at Flushing High School, Queens, New York, toughen up by methods similiar to those used in Commando training. Ability to cover distances quickly despite obstacles is developed by the school's ranger course which these boys are enrolled in

High school Victory Corps. Boys at Flushing High School, Queens, New Y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All Obstacles to the Great... [New York Herald, 27 October 1910]

All Obstacles to the Great... [New York Herald, 27 October 1910]

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A black and white photo of a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 12 miles showing the numerous forts, batteries and the range of their fire, and the various obstacles that impede the approach of the Federal army, also, the principal towns & plantations, in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, together with several of the battle fields of 1862.

A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 1...

Scale ca. 1:54,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 628 "As a guide to note the approach of the Federal army, this map is invaluable, as the plan of its fortifications is taken from a correct drawing of a Southern... More

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillerymen over one of the obstacles on the obstacle course at the anti-aircraft training center. Here we see the different phases of the jump; one man has just landed on the sandbags; two are in the air; and another man is gathering himself for the spring across

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillery...

Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ab... More