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Civilian Defense volunteers receiving instruction in treatment of fractured arm. First aid class. American Red Cross, New York City

Civilian Defense volunteers receiving instruction in treatment of frac...

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

The air raid protective services. One of the things an auxiliary fireman must learn is that the hose must be free of kinks before the water is turned on. Proper laying of fire hose is a technique of itself, a technique in which the volunteers must be instructed

The air raid protective services. One of the things an auxiliary firem...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on Kauai, Hawaii who reported for physical examination prior to induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit taking shape in the territory were these three pairs of brothers. From left to right they are: Minoru, twenty-eight, and Chitsugi Manabe, twenty-three; Tooru, eighteen, and James S. Takenaka, twenty; and Shigeo, twenty-one, and Tadao Suemori, twenty. Tooru Takenaka was still a student in high school when he went up for his physical. He volunteered because "I want to go in with my brother to do my share."

Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, all were taken in a simultaneous operation as AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers on Kauai, Hawaii, first island to begin induction into the new combat unit, underwent physical examination prior to induction of 150 men

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, a...

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Washington, D.C. A unit of the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A unit of the parade to recruit civilian defense volu...

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Washington, D.C. A unit of the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A unit of the parade to recruit civilian defense volu...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The 31st regt. Ohio Volunteers, [Col. M.B. Walker] building breastworks and embrasures before Corinth, Miss., May, 1862

The 31st regt. Ohio Volunteers, [Col. M.B. Walker] building breastwork...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Middleton, Strobridge & Co.

Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Building 72, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, ...

Significance: This building was erected after the completion of a facility master plan by John Calvin Stevens in 1906. Stevens received both the contract for the completion of the master plan and the subsequen... More

Officers of 1st Rhode Island Volunteers, Camp Sprague, 1861

Officers of 1st Rhode Island Volunteers, Camp Sprague, 1861

Ambrose Everett Burnside with eight officers posed in front of building, with sign reading "Col. Burnside welcome home." No. 4100. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Exhibit loan 4116-L.

Camp of 35th New York Volunteers. (Jefferson County Regiment)

Camp of 35th New York Volunteers. (Jefferson County Regiment)

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[Unidentified soldier in Union sargeant major's uniform with gauntlets and forage cap of the 206th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment]

[Unidentified soldier in Union sargeant major's uniform with gauntlets...

Case: Berg, no. 3-25. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Col... More

[Chickahominy River, Virginia Military bridge built by the 15th New York Volunteers under Colonel John McL. Murphy]

[Chickahominy River, Virginia Military bridge built by the 15th New Yo...

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

Antietam, Maryland. Colonel Turner G. Morehead, 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Antietam, Maryland. Colonel Turner G. Morehead, 106th Pennsylvania Vol...

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Wisconsin 4th Regiment Volunteers to Halbert E. Paine, Friday, June 06, 1862  (Petition; endorsed by Paine)
[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers (10th Legion) with musket and sword]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers...

Photograph shows insignia on right breast pocket of a shield with an embedded "X" probably designating the 56th New York Volunteers, also known as the 10th Legion. Case: Leather pointed design with scroll exte... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers (10th Legion) with musket and sword]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers...

Photograph shows insignia on right breast pocket of a shield with an embedded "X" probably designating the 56th New York Volunteers, also known as the 10th Legion. Case: Leather pointed design with scroll exte... More

The soldier's memorial - 23d Regiment, Company F., Maine Volunteers

The soldier's memorial - 23d Regiment, Company F., Maine Volunteers

Mustered into United States Service September 29, 1862. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6000

[Full-length portrait of a soldier, identified in inscription as Pvt. C. Kelsey, Company C, 152nd New York Volunteers] / J.P. Ball, 30 W. 4th St.

[Full-length portrait of a soldier, identified in inscription as Pvt. ...

Title devised by Library staff based on ink inscription on back of mount. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52. "WE286" and "CDV557" written in pencil on back of the mount. "Mohawk N.Y." written in pen... More

[George Gray of Company K, 38th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteers and unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap with rifles including Colt 1855 carbine]

[George Gray of Company K, 38th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteers and un...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Berg, no. 7-22. Additional information in collections file. Other materials related to George Gray: Carte de visite of Gray grandparents processed as LOT... More

Dr. A. Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, attending to Confederate wounded after the Battle of Antietam

Dr. A. Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, attending to Confederate wounded...

Photograph shows wounded Confederate soldiers under tents at Smith's barn near Keedysville, Md. The barn was used as a hospital after the battle with Dr. Anson Hurd in attendance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 588... More

Lt. Colonel Samuel S.F. Tappan, 1st Colorado Regt. of Volunteers

Lt. Colonel Samuel S.F. Tappan, 1st Colorado Regt. of Volunteers

A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States Volunteers attacked by the mob, corner of Fifth and Walnut Streets, St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by M. Hastings, Esq.

United States Volunteers attacked by the mob, corner of Fifth and Waln...

Soldiers firing at crowd of people attacking them. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 231 (1861 June 1), p. 349 (botttom).

Reverend L.F. Drake, chaplain 31st Ohio volunteers, preaching at camp Dick Robinson, KY, November 10th 1861

Reverend L.F. Drake, chaplain 31st Ohio volunteers, preaching at camp ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Camp of 2nd Vermont Volunteers at Camp Griffin, Virginia]

[Camp of 2nd Vermont Volunteers at Camp Griffin, Virginia]

Photograph showing Union Army camp with large tents errected among trees and soldiers posed by row of small tents.

Bealeton, Virginia. View of camp of 93d New York Volunteers

Bealeton, Virginia. View of camp of 93d New York Volunteers

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

Fort Gaines, Tenleytown, D.C., detachment of New York Volunteers, 1864

Fort Gaines, Tenleytown, D.C., detachment of New York Volunteers, 1864

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

Women volunteers preparing school lunch. Reedsville, West Virginia

Women volunteers preparing school lunch. Reedsville, West Virginia

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

Civilian protection. Handle him carefully, boys! Victim of an air raid is brought into a hospital where volunteers trained in first aid place him carefully on a cot

Civilian protection. Handle him carefully, boys! Victim of an air raid...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The fine machinery and skilled operators of a commercial watch case factory are now producing precision radio parts for the armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Japanese-American volunteers. The remaining fifty-three volunteers of board no. 2, Lihue, Kauai, who passed their physical to complete their board's quota of fifty-eight inductees take the oath of induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat regiment. The oath is administered by Major Charles V. McManus, adjutant of the Kauai Service Command

Japanese-American volunteers. The remaining fifty-three volunteers of ...

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Japanese-American volunteers. Second and larger group on Kauai, Hawaii to go up for physical examination, the Makaweli draft board registrants answer roll call outside their board prior to going up for the physical. Calling roll is Captain J.J. Fallon of the Kuai Service Command. Standing beside the captain is Mr. John Fernandes, member of the Selective Service System on the Garden Isle

Japanese-American volunteers. Second and larger group on Kauai, Hawaii...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) volunteers to be inducted into the U.S. Army Combat Regiment now being formed, 18-year-old Mitsura Doi of Kauai, Hawaii, garage worker, receives congratulations from Major Charles V. McManus, adjutant of the Kauai Service Command who administered the oath of induction at 2:40 PM, Thursday, March 11. Doi was born at Koloa and volunteered with the blessing of his parents. "I'm just waiting to begin training and get into action," he said as he shook hands with Major McManus

Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C. Senior aide Louise Beleno assists staff nurse Vashti Hall in the care of the patients. Nurse Hall is shown holding food cart, while Aide Beleno feeds another patient

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Freedmen's Hospital, Washin...

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

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bealeton, Virginia. Officer's mess. Company F, 93d New York Volunteers Headquarters, Army of the Potomac

Bealeton, Virginia. Officer's mess. Company F, 93d New York Volunteers...

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Roach's Springs, Virginia Encampment of the Connecticut Volunteers First Regiment

Roach's Springs, Virginia Encampment of the Connecticut Volunteers Fir...

Soldiers relaxing around a tent, with two on picket duty. Title inscribed below image. Mathematical sum inscribed lower right. The Connecticut regiment began occupying Roach's Springs on 2 June, 1861. Lean-tos ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform holding Company B, 15th New Hampshire Volunteers kepi]

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform holding Company B, 1...

Case: Berg, no. 3-108. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: The Union Drummer Boy, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005. Forms part of: Li... More

[Colonel T. W. Higginson, commander of the 1st SC Volunteers (the first African American regiment)] / W. Notman.

[Colonel T. W. Higginson, commander of the 1st SC Volunteers (the firs...

Photograph shows a head and shoulders portrait of Higginson in civilian clothing. He was also an Abolitionist in Worcester, Mass., working as an Underground Railroad operator. Title derived from Gladstone colle... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 138, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Survey number: HABS IN-306-Z National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 99000833

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company E, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers hat]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company E, 12th Regiment N...

Case: Berg, no. 2-125. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Co... More

[Unidentified Union private holding Company D, 15th New Hampshire Volunteers forage cap over heart]

[Unidentified Union private holding Company D, 15th New Hampshire Volu...

Case: Leather geometric scroll. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: Campbell, J. Duncan and Michael J. O'Donnell. American military h... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers (10th Legion) and forage cap; Grand Army of the Republic badge pinned to the velvet pad opposite photograph]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers...

Photograph shows insignia on right breast pocket of a shield with an embedded "X" probably designating the 56th New York Volunteers, also known as the 10th Legion. Case: Rinhart, no. 54 Digital photo with mat ... More

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Galveston, Tex.; Volunteers, 1900

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

[Portrait of Pvt. Charles Mitchel, Company D, 107th New York Volunteers, U.S.A.]

[Portrait of Pvt. Charles Mitchel, Company D, 107th New York Volunteer...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The campaign in Kentucky--The national troops under General Johnston advancing on the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, overtaken by the equipage and baggage train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad / from a sketch by our special artist with General Buell's command.  The campaign on the Potomac--Unsuccessful attempt of the Rebels to destroy dam no. 5, on the upper Potomac, near Williamsport, Maryland, December 1861 / from a sketch by Capt. Henry Bacon of the 13th Massachusetts volunteers.

The campaign in Kentucky--The national troops under General Johnston a...

2 illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Jan. 18, p. 129.

Southern "volunteers", Confederate States of America.

Southern "volunteers", Confederate States of America.

The print may have appeared soon after the Confederate Congress passed a national conscription act on April 16, 1862, to strengthen its dwindling army of volunteers. The artist characterizes regular Confederat... More

Bealeton, Virginia. Regimental staff, 93d New York Volunteers

Bealeton, Virginia. Regimental staff, 93d New York Volunteers

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

The volunteers of 1792 - Public domain portrait engraving

The volunteers of 1792 - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Union Volunteers [i.e., 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry] at Bloody Angle

Union Volunteers [i.e., 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry] at Bloody Angle

Photo shows members of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry at the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Source: Caption data for s... More

Gideon J. Pillow, Maj. Gen'l, volunteers U.S.P.

Gideon J. Pillow, Maj. Gen'l, volunteers U.S.P.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Smythe, head nurse, ARC, St. Etienne and her staff of volunteer workers, attending the Child Welfare Exhibit, St. Etienne

Miss Smythe, head nurse, ARC, St. Etienne and her staff of volunteer w...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: A.R.C. Expositions. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows Corporal Arvin L. Ghazlo demonstrating to a bayonet class technique of disarming the enemy. Corporal Ghazlo was once teacher of judo to the Georgia State Police

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides assist graudate nurses by making and changing beds. Photo taken in women's surgical ward of Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., showing volunteer nurses aide, Miss Romay Johnson (left) and Mrs. Dora Boston (right) changing bedsheets for patients

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides assi...

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

Japanese-American volunteers. From surveyor and civil engineer to buck private in Uncle Sam's army--that's Shuichi "Pete" Sakamoto's idea of success in life. Member of the Engineers' Association of Hawaii and of the University of Hawaii Alumni Association, Sakamoto, thirty-four, married and the father of a two-year-old son undergoes a close examination of his teeth by Captain J.B. Daudelin, who was one of the panel of Army physicians who passed on Kauai's first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers

Japanese-American volunteers. From surveyor and civil engineer to buck...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orie Loucks lectures to Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers during the Citizen Science orientation in the gymnasium of the Mountview School, Rock Creek, West Virginia

Orie Loucks lectures to Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers du...

Event: Citizen Science workshop at Mountview School. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company A, 12th Michigan Volunteers Regiment forage cap holding Lorenz musket]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company A, 12th Michigan V...

Case: Leather geometric scroll. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie, Los Angeles. pp/liljunion

The soldier's record - Thirty-Ninth Regiment, Company G, Massachusetts. Volunteers

The soldier's record - Thirty-Ninth Regiment, Company G, Massachusetts...

Mustered into United States Service September 2d, 1862. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6001

[Unidentified soldier in 3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers (The Butterflies) jacket with corporal's chevrons]

[Unidentified soldier in 3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers (The Butter...

Case: Berg, no. 7-41. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: The Union Drummer Boy, Gettys... More

A journal, containing an accurate and interesting account of the hardships, sufferings, battles, defeat, and captivity of those heroic Kentucky volunteers and regulars : commanded by General Winchester, in the years 1812-13.  Also, two narratives by men that were wounded in the battles on the River Raisin and taken captive by the Indians
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 138, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Survey number: HABS IN-306-Z National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 99000833

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

Record of a nine months' regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, The 151st regiment, Penna. volunteers ... List of losses at Gettysburg, by companies. Hamburg, Pa. The Item printing house. [186-].

Record of a nine months' regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, The 151...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 159, Folder 34.

[Captain James Dugan Gist of General & Staff Confederate States Infantry Regiment in uniform with South Carolina Volunteers kepi]

[Captain James Dugan Gist of General & Staff Confederate States Infant...

Case: Leather; floral design (front), geometric design (back). Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bryan Watson, Civil War Images, Torrington, Wyoming, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenqu... More

[Regimental staff, New York Volunteers, near Bealton [i.e., Bealeton] , Virginia] / T.H. O'Sullivan.

[Regimental staff, New York Volunteers, near Bealton [i.e., Bealeton] ...

Civil War Photograph Collection. LC-B815-284. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

12th Pennsylvania Volunteers [i.e., 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry] at Bloody Angle

12th Pennsylvania Volunteers [i.e., 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry] at Blo...

Photo shows members of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry at the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Source: Flickr Commons pr... More

Flood refugees being fed at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois. The people serving food are volunteers from among the flood refugees

Flood refugees being fed at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois. The...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station, any firehouse, [or] Room 201 City Hall, 16 South 15th Street.

Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station, any...

Poster calling for volunteers for "air raid wardens, auxiliary firemen, auxiliary policemen, and other services in the civilian defense army." Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense. Work Projects Adminis... More

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Japanese-American volunteers. "I am very happy that my son is the first man inducted," Harue Doi, thirty-eight, of Lihue, Kauai said in broken English as he posed with his son Mitsuru, eighteen, first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer in the territory to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment being formed in the islands. Mrs. Sao Doi, thirty-six, proudly stood beside her son and held up the fourth member of the Doi family, eighteen-month-old Marian Hanako. The elder Doi, yardman for Dr. S. Wallis of Lihue, is an alien but Mrs. Doi, laundress for the Lihue Plantation Hospital, was born in Lihue and is an American citizen

Japanese-American volunteers. "I am very happy that my son is the firs...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese-American volunteers. First volunteer in the Territory of Hawaii to take the oath of induction into the U.S. Army Combat Regiment being organized for Americans of Japanese ancestry, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, pledges allegiance to the United States as Major Charles V. McManus, adjutant of the Kauai Service Command administers the oath. Doi was born at Loloa, but lived in Lihue and worked as station attendant at the Kapaia Garage. He applied for voluntary induction on January 30, two days after Washington announced formation of the combat unit. "I'm going to be a darn good soldier," Doi said after taking the oath. "I'm just waiting to begin training and get into action."

Japanese-American volunteers. First volunteer in the Territory of Hawa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides help to relieve the shortage in graduate nurses by assisting in the feeding of patients as well as in making beds, giving baths, taking temperatures, pulse, respiration, etc. Photo shows Mrs. Thomas Couch, volunteer nurses aide, feeding patient in men's ward at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides help...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Japanese-American volunteers. Assistant Kauai county agricultural agent, Morito Kawakami held a position important in the island's economy but nonetheless volunteered for duty with the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit for which Kauai held the territory's first physical examinations. He is examined by Captain E.P. Danforth, U.S. Army, at one of the last stages in the stiff physical examination. Kawakami, thirty-one, was born in Eleele, Kauai, and latterly lived in Lihue. He married in November, 1939 and Mrs. Kawakami is chief operator for the Kauai Telephone Company. Mr. Kawakami attended the University of Hawaii from 1929 to 1933 and was a member of the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) for two years. He has two sisters and three brothers, one of the latter, Keiji, is a fellow volunteer for duty with the U.S. Army

Japanese-American volunteers. Assistant Kauai county agricultural agen...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

The 10th Reg't Iowa Volunteers on the march from Hamburg to camp before Corinth, April 28th 1862 / sketched by A.E. Mathews, 31st Reg't O.V.I. ; Middleton & Strobridge lithographers.

The 10th Reg't Iowa Volunteers on the march from Hamburg to camp befor...

Print shows Union soldiers fording a stream in a wooded area while on the march from Hamburg, Tennessee, to Corinth.

[Private William F. Bower of Company D, 21st Ohio Regiment Infantry Volunteers, with bayoneted musket]

[Private William F. Bower of Company D, 21st Ohio Regiment Infantry Vo...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform and Ohio Volunteer Militia belt buckle. Title devised by Library staff based on information from discharge papers. Case: Berg, 7-50. Found with discharge certific... More

Massachusetts. 8th Regiment of Volunteers during American Civil War

Massachusetts. 8th Regiment of Volunteers during American Civil War

19 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform holding Company B, 15th New Hampshire Volunteers kepi]

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform holding Company B, 1...

Case: Berg, no. 3-108. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: The Union Drummer Boy, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005. Forms part of: Li... More

Commissary department. Encampment of the Massachusetts. 6th Regiment of Volunteers at the Relay House near Baltimore, Md., 1861

Commissary department. Encampment of the Massachusetts. 6th Regiment o...

18 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and P&AGA catalog cards. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford. Entered 1861 & pub. by J.H. Bufford. From a sketch by Alfred Ordway.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform of Company E, "Lynchburg Rifles," 11th Virginia Infantry Volunteers holding 1841 "Mississippi" rifle, Sheffield-type Bowie knife, canteen, box knapsack, blanket roll, and cartridge box]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform of Company E, "Lynchburg ...

Photograph shows a soldier in 1861, fully-equipped with a Model 1841 "Mississippi" rifle, a Sheffield-style Bowie knife, revolver, militia style drum canteen, box knapsack, blanket roll, and cartridge box. (S... More

[Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers]

[Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers]

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers]

[Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers]

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Public domain photograph related to army, military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conn. & Massachusetts. volunteers in sand bag battery

Conn. & Massachusetts. volunteers in sand bag battery

Photograph shows a group of Connecticut and Massachusetts Volunteers alongside a cannon in the sandbag battery, possibly at Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-... More

[Pvt. Edward H. Clark of Company G, 12th New Hampshire Volunteers]

[Pvt. Edward H. Clark of Company G, 12th New Hampshire Volunteers]

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Leather quatrefoil scroll. Additional information on card in case behind ambrotype. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquis... More

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounted volunteers led by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, 5th Oct. 1813

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounte...

Print shows the battle of Thames with Colonel Richard M. Johnson and the Kentucky volunteers on the left engaged in battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Prominent figures, including Col. Richard M. Johns... More

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounted volunteers led by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, 5th Oct. 1813

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounte...

Print shows the battle of Thames with Colonel Richard M. Johnson and the Kentucky volunteers on the left engaged in battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Prominent figures, including Col. Richard M. Johns... More

[Unidentified soldier of the 12th Illinois Volunteers, "The First Scotch Regiment" in greatcoat and tamoshanter cap]

[Unidentified soldier of the 12th Illinois Volunteers, "The First Scot...

Case: leather geometric scroll border with cross-like oval interior. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company E, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers hat]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company E, 12th Regiment N...

Case: Berg, no. 2-125. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Co... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers (10th Legion) and forage cap; Grand Army of the Republic badge pinned to the velvet pad opposite photograph]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform of the 56th New York Volunteers...

Photograph shows insignia on right breast pocket of a shield with an embedded "X" probably designating the 56th New York Volunteers, also known as the 10th Legion. Case: Rinhart, no. 54 Digital photo with mat ... More

[Major General George Armstrong Custer of 2nd Regular Army Cavalry Regiment, 5th Regular Army Cavalry Regiment, Aide-de-Camp U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment, and General Staff U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment, in uniform]

[Major General George Armstrong Custer of 2nd Regular Army Cavalry Reg...

Hoxie Collection. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a ... More

[Portrait of Pvt. Sampson Altman, Jr., Company C, 29th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C.S.A.]

[Portrait of Pvt. Sampson Altman, Jr., Company C, 29th Regiment Georgi...

Pvt. Altman fought in the battle of Shiloh, died April 23, 1863 from disease.

[Sergeant Cornelius V. Moore of Company B, 100th New York Volunteers, a sergeant of 39th Illinois Regiment, a corporal of 106th New York Volunteers, and a private of the 11th Vermont Regiment in camp scene poses in front of painted backdrop showing military camp]

[Sergeant Cornelius V. Moore of Company B, 100th New York Volunteers, ...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosMooreC.html Case: Berg, no. 7-23. Additional information in collections file. Other materials r... More

Greek irregular volunteers on the frontier, Thessaly, Greece

Greek irregular volunteers on the frontier, Thessaly, Greece

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Soldiers 1897; Boundaries; Gr. Thessaly; Greco...; Greco... More

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