166 Trench warfare Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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.

Dead confederate soldier, Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate States of ...

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

[German soldiers in a trench] during World War I

(Source: Similar image in the Imperial War Museum, Q 61042) Public domain photograph of military forces, army, artillery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph - World War One artillery, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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 WW I" in the Th... More

This view was taken in the trenches of the rebel Fort Mahone, called b...

Stereograph showing a partially dressed Confederate boy lying dead outside a bomb proof in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3187, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the... More

C.S. soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of "Fort Hell" (i.e. "F...

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier lying at the bottom of a trench at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia.

Going to the trenches--a sketch in Camp Winfield Scott. Before Yorktow...

Soldiers carrying shovels.

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier crumpled in a fetal position in the trenches outside of Fort Mahone near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6190. Part of series: The War for the Union. Phot... More

[Swiss soldiers entranched on the frontier]

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trench! trench! trench! our boys are trenching

This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

Our boys in the trenches - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers occupying a line of breastworks on the north bank of the North Anna River, Va. No. 756. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed... More

Trenches near Manila - A black and white photo of a man on a horse

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

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

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

[Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock Riv...

Title information from: Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, by William Frassanito (NY: Scribner's Sons, 1983), p. 422. And, Brian Pohanka. "The Famous 'Petersburg' Photo," in Military Images Magazine, Jan.-... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier with a musket next to him in the trenches outside of Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6189. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photog... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing two dead Confederate soldiers in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865. No. 6182. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. A... More

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scan / drawing

Guard in canvas-covered trench in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of trench or breastworks on verso. See also Waud, No. 120. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.2... 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

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

Photograph shows German soldiers in a trench during World War I. (Source: similar photograph at the National Archives) On mount of similar photograph at the National Archives: "German Official Photograph."

A French departure trench just before zero hour

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

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.

"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

C.S. soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of "Fort Hell" (i.e. "F...

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier lying at the bottom of a trench at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia.

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier with a musket next to him in the trenches outside of Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6189. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photog... More

A dead rebel soldier, as he lay in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called...

No. 3190, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: This soldier must have been killed by a fragment of shell, that exploded close by, as he is ... More

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain drawing

Guard in canvas-covered trench in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of trench or breastworks on verso. See also Waud, No. 120. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.2... More

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

Photograph shows American soldiers digging trenches. No. X2142. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Union Line before Petersburg, Virginia, during the long siege. Thi...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers in fortified trenches. No. 756. Corrected title, date, and photographer from record for original negative. Copyright 1904 by John C. Taylor. Forms part of: Civil War Photogra... 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.

Rebel soldier, killed in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the so...

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

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. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simps... 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.

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

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier crumpled sideways at the bottom of a trench in Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: ... More

Trench! trench! trench! our boys are trenching

This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More

This view was taken in the rebel trenches, the morning after the storm...

Conservation no. 2.90.291.27. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: [This view] shows a dead rebel soldier who must have died instantly, his left temple and part of th... More

In the trenches during a truce : the Spanish lines run right in front ...

Illustration for McClure's magazine; not published. No accession number. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

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. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / Willi... 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 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. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

J217850 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Realistic Travels. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Reims - Fort de la Pompelle - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

[Lucian Swift Kirtland leaning against sandbags in trench]

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-1981:255 c1, f9

Facing the scars of war - Egypt

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

This view was taken in the trenches of the rebel Fort Mahone, called b...

Stereograph showing a partially dressed Confederate boy lying dead outside a bomb proof in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3187, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the... More

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

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

D24262 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12038. Copyright by B.L. Singley. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Sniped - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congres...

Print shows a dead or wounded soldier lying on the ground in a trench with several other soldiers around him. Signed on stone on lower left and in pencil on lower right. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: No. ... More

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

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier crumpled sideways at the bottom of a trench in Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: ... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier with gun in the trenches of Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. No. 6175. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 186... More

Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Bivouac of the 5th corps in the rifle pits. The men in the trenches were not only exposed to shot & shell but ... More

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

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

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

D11355 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.... 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. Copyright 1898 by William Dinwiddie.

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

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

H59920 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 7596. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[German machine gunners in a trench]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bayonet charge into the trenches, Ft. Snelling, Minn

No. 19042. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

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.

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

Genl. Hunt--and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer

Title inscribed below image. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file L. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.475) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone - Public domain scenic drawing

Guard in canvas-covered trench in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed below image. Rough sketch of trench or breastworks on verso. See also Waud, No. 120. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.2... More

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

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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.

[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.

[German military personnal in a trench]

Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

[Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock Riv...

Title information from: Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, by William Frassanito (NY: Scribner's Sons, 1983), p. 422. And, Brian Pohanka. "The Famous 'Petersburg' Photo," in Military Images Magazine, Jan.-... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier crumpled in a fetal position in the trenches outside of Fort Mahone near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6190. Part of series: The War for the Union. Phot... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier with gun in the trenches of Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. No. 6175. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 186... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing two dead Confederate soldiers in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865. No. 6182. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. A... More

[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. Forms part of the Rehs... More

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Rebel soldier, killed in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the so...

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

How Sherman fixed the railroad so the "Johnnies" could not use it. She...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers in fortified trenches. No. 756. Corrected title, date and photographer from record for original negative. Copyright 1904 by John C. Taylor. Forms part of: Civil War Photograp... More

Bivouaced in the rifle pits 5th Corps

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Bivouac of the 5th corps in the rifle pits. The men in the trenches were not only exposed to shot & shell but ... More

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

Soldiers leaving trench during World War I. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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