trench warfare

Russian rifle pit - now part of the British advanced trenches, on the ...

Print shows soldiers filling sand bags and firing over a barrier of sand bags and gabions. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen... More

Sebastobol from the 26 gun battery on the extreme right of French atta...

Print shows soldiers digging trenches in the snow, and distant view of Sevastopolʹ, during winter. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty t... More

Point Isabel, Texas / from a sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. Bonw...

Soldiers digging trench in foreground; buildings and steamboats in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Feb. 13, p. 321.

Interior view of the Rebel works in front of Petersburgh [sic], Va. sh...

A dead rebel soldier, as he lay in the trenches of "Fort Hell"

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Title from item. Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.... More

[Soldier standing in a rifle pit covered by a canopy]

[Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, ...

[Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, ...

Dead confederate soldier, Petersburg, Va., Confederate States of Ameri...

Dead Confederate soldier lying in trench. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington :... More

In the American trenches before Santiago during a truce, 1898

Photograph showing soldiers seated atop trenches topped with sandbags and rifles ready for firing; one man standing in the center is waving his hat. Title from item. Copyright 1898 by William Dinwiddie.

"Till my regiment is mustered out" - Funston's reply when asked how lo...

U.S. soldiers in trench during the Philippine War. Title from item. Copyright 1899 by Underwood & Underwood.

Trenches near Manila

No. 744. Copyright by Perley Fremont Rockett, San Francisco.

U.S. troops and Red Cross in the trenches before Caloocan /

"Our troops have driven the Filipinos out of the trenches, and, after firing one or two volleys, press on in pursuit. The enemy returns the fire and the forward rush is marked by a trail of dead and wounded. Fo... More

Filipinos retreat from trenches /

"An incident of the Battle of the Trenches at Candabar [sic]. The enemy threw up a high earth embankment during the night, and are defending it with great stubbornness. The pits are crowded with Filipinos, who ... More

Cubans in their trenches - Awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cub...

28370 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood.

Capture of trenches at Candaba /

"The Filipinos execute a flank movement and re-occupy the trenches, cutting off the advance guard of Americans. The rebel flag waves over the ditch and they defend their position bravely. A fierce charge by our... More

"Till my regiment is mustered out" - Funston's reply when asked how lo...

U.S. soldiers in trench during the Spanish-American War. 83923 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood.

In the Orange River trenches holding back the Boers--South Africa

D11355 U.S. Copyright Office.

Firing a volley from shelter of bank - Chinese soldiers at Tien-Tsin, ...

D24262 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12038. Copyright by B.L. Singley.

Looking south over the Russian trenches and magazine - from the centra...

Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. Title from item.

Keeping below the dead line--in Japanese trenches near the Russian for...

H59920 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 7596.

[Bursting Japanese shell 200 ft. away, seen from Russian trench near W...

H63429 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7735.

In the front parallel of the Japanese trenches

Photograph shows Japanese soldiers in large trench during the Russo-Japanese war. H57843 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Printed description on verso of mount. No. 1035V. Copyright 1905 by T.W. Ingersoll.

In the trenches at the Sha-ho - firing on the enemy from bomb-proof re...

H62238 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 14523.

The Mikado's soldiers behind entrenchments, Manchuria

H86974 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Standard Scenic Company. No. 542.

South-west trenches Major Francisco S. Peralta standing back to shack,...

Photograph shows soldiers aiming rifles over trenches. Title from item.

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lea...

[German machine gunners in a trench]

[German soldiers in a trench; in background, a town]

Photograph shows German soldiers in a trench during World War I. Title devised by Library staff. (Source: similar photograph at the National Archives) On mount of similar photograph at the National Archives: "... More

A French departure trench just before zero hour

French soldiers in trenches during World War I. J13934 U.S. Copyright Office. No. W116.

[Swiss soldiers entranched on the frontier]

George Grantham Bain Collection.

[German military personnal in a trench]

Title devised by Library staff.

[German soldiers in a trench]

Title devised by Library staff. (Source: Similar image in the Imperial War Museum, Q 61042)

Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lean...

Title devised by Library staff.

[Abandoned British trench which was captured by the Germans; in backgr...

No. 7981 appears on photograph. Caption on back: Die Grosse Schlacht im Westen. Der Stab einer Infanterie-Division ... ueberscreiten einer genommenen engl. Stellung (176). Stamped: BUFA. Title devised by Librar... More

A quiet moment in German trenches

Small group of German soldiers relaxing, reading, etc. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption car... More

Second line coming up amid shell fire to win the trench

British soldiers in World War I. J217084 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Realistic Travels.

[Three British soldiers in trench under fire during World War I]

J217850 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Realistic Travels.

A formidable weapon in trench warfare photo by Central News Photo Serv...

Photograph shows a French trench mortar in position for firing with two French soldiers nearby, one on a wooden walkway over the mud, the other is using a shovel in a hole or trench, on the Somme front in Franc... More

See real warfare - "over there" cantonment - made possible by blood-no...

Poster showing a tank climbing across a trench. Opens March 30th, moving pictures, music, world's greatest orators.

Bayonet charge into the trenches, Ft. Snelling, Minn

Title from item. No. 19042.

302nd Eng. repairing road over trench and 92nd Div. (colored) machine ...

Photograph shows engineers of the 302nd Engineer Regiment repairing a roadway over a trench and African American soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division (Buffalo Soldiers) in a trench headed into action in the A... More

Scenes with the expeditionary force in the Egyptian area British trenc...

U.S. Marines in France Digging in. Training for modern warfare consist...

Photograph shows American soldiers digging trenches. Title from item. No. X2142.

American 155 mm artillery cooperating with the 29th Div. in position o...

Photograph shows American soldiers from the 324th Field Artillery Regiment or the 158th Field Artillery Brigade around a camouflaged 155 mm howitzer with shells nearby, one soldier stands in front of the cannon... More

Und Ihr? Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / AR 17.

Poster shows a soldier in a trench holding a grenade. Text: And you? Subscribe to the 7th War Loan at the k.k. pr. Öst. Creditanstalt f.H.u.G. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Sig... More

Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan

Poster showing a battle scene with trenches, a tank, and explosion. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

National allied bazaar Mechanics Bldg. Boston December 9 to 20 / / Lib...

Poster showing a battle scene with Allied tank, trenches, and airplanes.

View showing concrete reetting and the rock and concrete fire step in ...

"Over the top" - American soldiers answering the bugle call to "charge...

Soldiers leaving trench during World War I.

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Poster showing an intense scene of hand to hand combat at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle. Text continues: Needed in overseas hospitals - soldiers' wives. Women whose husbands are in service abroad are eligible f... More

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Poster showing an intense scene of hand to hand combat at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle.

The Boche spotted this truck A few minutes after this truck, which had...

Title from item. No. 1527-S8. In album: Photographic supplement to historical record of quartermaster corps activities A.E.F. Vol. 19-A, p. 13.

Der Schützengraben im k.k. Prater ... / Franz Wacik.

Poster shows a soldier in a trench; in the background are warships on the sea. Poster announces a military display in the Prater including a reenactment of a naval battle with war ships, a trench, military musi... More

[Lucian Swift Kirtland leaning against sandbags in trench]

Title devised by Library staff. Gift/Purchase; Ivan and Hinderaker/Walter Grossman; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:255, DLC/PP-1981:339). Forms part of: Kirtland collection (Library of Congress). Accession box no. DLC/PP-1... More

Reims - Fort de la Pompelle

Photograph shows an explosion from an artillery shell striking the ground near a trench, with soldiers taking cover. J236489 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Inscribed on lower right corner: Reims - Fort... More

A woman on the battle front / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, sta...

Three images relating to battles near the Piave River, Italy during World War I. Images show soldiers marching; a YMCA car among the ruins of a town near the Piave River; and Helen Johns Kirtland being shown re... More

This grim reminder wends its way northward, from Chateau Thierry to So...

Snakelike trench winds through war ravaged land. J272799 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.E. Troutman, Inc. No. 5141.

Panorama of the southeast edge of Motoyama Airfield #1 covering beach ...

Beach covered with soldiers in foxholes, ships in water in background. Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps). No. 111438.

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier on the foot passages in the trenches of Fort Mahone with blood on his face, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6178. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench readin...

Title devised by Library staff. Date based on years noted on sign at upper right. Illegible notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)

[Tank ploughing its way through a trench and starting toward the Germa...

Title from item. Copyright by Committee on Public Information, New York City. Signal Corps photo 20951. No. 2669. National Photo Company Collection. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of... More

Sniped

Print shows a dead or wounded soldier lying on the ground in a trench with several other soldiers around him. Title from item. Signed on stone on lower left and in pencil on lower right. Inscribed in pencil on ... More

Facing the scars of war

Photograph shows Indo-Chinese labor groups reclaiming French land from trench warfare by filling in a line of trenches. They work near remaining "chevaux-de-frise". Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":... More

Airplane view of trenches and shell holes

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19284. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

"And the trench was a reeking shambles," German dead in the La Bassée ...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18858. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

In a French trench, sandbag protected, showing dart bombs

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18833. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

French lines captured from the enemy by the Marine Fusileers

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18665. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

"On all sides round a great furnace flamed," German attack, north Comp...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18879. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Sharpshooters in protected position near enemy lines

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18846. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Trenches bitterly contested in battle in once peaceful village near Yp...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V19271. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

"Through sickly shrapnel-sown meadows reaped by death alone"

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18895. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Loading a trench mortar in a hillside dugout on the Serbian front

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18890. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Entrenched Highlanders on the lookout using mirror periscope

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18861. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

In a British first line trench in the Balkans

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18882. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Steel-helmeted Scots entrenched and cheerily awaiting a counterattack

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18862. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Camp of French artillerymen enjoying well-earned rest from trench warf...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18603. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

French soldiers resting in the trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18633. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Looking E. on Italian front. Foreground, Italian trenches of resistanc...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18711. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Rifle grenade in a British line trench in the Balkans

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18881. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Camouflaged trenches in Chemin des Dames sector

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18835. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

French mine explosion under enemy trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18748. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier on the foot passages in the trenches of Fort Mahone with blood on his face, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6178. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench readin...

Title devised by Library staff. Date based on years noted on sign at upper right. Illegible notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)

Facing the scars of war

Photograph shows Indo-Chinese labor groups reclaiming French land from trench warfare by filling in a line of trenches. They work near remaining "chevaux-de-frise". Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":... More

French soldiers resting in the trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18633. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Looking E. on Italian front. Foreground, Italian trenches of resistanc...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18711. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Sharpshooters in protected position near enemy lines

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18846. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Entrenched Highlanders on the lookout using mirror periscope

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18861. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

"On all sides round a great furnace flamed," German attack, north Comp...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18879. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Camouflaged trenches in Chemin des Dames sector

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18835. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Loading a trench mortar in a hillside dugout on the Serbian front

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18890. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

In a French trench, sandbag protected, showing dart bombs

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18833. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

In a British first line trench in the Balkans

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18882. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

"And the trench was a reeking shambles," German dead in the La Bassée ...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18858. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Trenches bitterly contested in battle in once peaceful village near Yp...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V19271. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

French mine explosion under enemy trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18748. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Rifle grenade in a British line trench in the Balkans

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18881. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Airplane view of trenches and shell holes

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19284. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Camp of French artillerymen enjoying well-earned rest from trench warf...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18603. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More