Tokyo, Japan: May 18, 1933 Japanese Reservists at Hibiya Park in Tokyo witness the reading of the Imperial Rescript on the Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations.
France: c. 1916 German soldiers working in the fields in northern France.
Soldiers On The Maginot Line
Calumet, Michigan: 1913 A parade of striking copper miners passing the offfices of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company while National Guard troops stand by in case of trouble.
Shanghai, China: February 14, 1932. Some of the Japanese troops of the Kanazawa Division that has arrived in Shanghai under the command of Lieut.-General Uyeda. He has issued a warning that the Chinese must withdraw from the vicinity of Shanghai, or else the Japanese authorities would be forced to take extreme measures, including the destroying of all Chinese in the neighborhood of Shanghai.
New York, New York: April 13, 1919 A truck load of wounded soldiers arriving at Madison Square Garden for a free performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Six thousand soldiers were invited.
French Colonial Troops
First Tanks In Warfare
French Soldiers Occupy Essen
Turkish Soldiers Camp
332nd Infantry Arrives Home
24th anniversary of Arab revolt, 1940
Water Supplies For The Front
Ottoman soldiers (Turkish Army) in Palestine, 1915
Beijing, China: August 22, 1923 Members of the army of General Wu Pei-fu, China's greatest militarist and strategist, going through their training. They are the real power behind Beijing. Here they are loading up their weapons.
Hong Kong, China: April 8, 1927 British Bluejackets marching through the Chinese quarter of Hong Kong in a show of strength as they try to quell the unrest there.
Vladivostok, Siberia: October 24, 1918 U.S. troops on parade through the streets of Vladivostok during a celebration held in their honor.
New York, New York: August 7, 1919 The 2nd Division is welcomed home with a rose strewn parade in NYC.
U.S. Soldiers In Siberia
Washington D.C.: June 15, 1932. Camp Bartlett is the latest addition to the Bonus Army encampments in Washington, DC.
Archangel, Russia: March 4, 1919 Officers of the United States Expeditionary Forces at their headquarters .
Cossack Cavalry Troops
Chinese Army Troops
Belgian Soldiers And Farmers
War Nurses Ready To Go
Happy WWI Marines Return
Scene from London during World War I
Orthodox priest in Russian military hospital
French Troops Water Supply
Battle Of Verdun
WWI Gurkha Rifle Battalion
German Machine Gun Crew
Turkish Army Battery
Doolittle's Raiders In China
Chow Time In The Trenches
A Trap For The Enemy
Dardanelles, Turkey: c. 1915 Allied calvary units in the Dardanelles Campaign against Turkey.
Refueling trucks
The Prince Of Wales In India
Maginot Line, France: March 27, 1940 French and British soldiers assigned to duty in the Maginot Line attend Holy Mass during World War 2.
Chateau le Chenay, France: April, 1919 Harry Truman (second row, third from right) posed with his fellow soldiers of the 129th Field Arilllery unit during WWI.
Group Portrait of African American Soldiers in Co. E, 9th United States Volunteer Infantry who fought in the Spanish-American War, by L. Leland Barton, 1899
Group Portrait of African American Soldiers in Co. I, 9th United States Volunteer Infantry who fought in the Spanish-American War, by L. Leland Barton, 1899
Japanese howitzer battery before Port Arthur
POWs Unload Cabbages For Lunch
Buffalo Soldiers
Chanute Field, Illinois: c. 1919 Students studying the intricacies of aircraft bombs at the Air Corp Technical School.
U.S. Navy Seebees on the march
Troy, New York: c. 1933 The collar turning department in the clothing factory of Cluett Peabody & Co., manufacturer of Arrow brand shirts.
Soldiers Transporting Cannons
A Battery Of British Howitzers
War Medals From Italy
Soldiers Welcome Home Parade
Japan: c. 1926 Japanese Navy sailors taking part in the annual 20 mile swim form the Naval base at Yokosuka to the Shinagawa ward in Tokyo. It is one of Japan's most popular sporting events.
Gas masks for horses
Russia: c. 1916 German soldiers with the peasants in whose home they are are billetted in Russia.
BOMBAY INFANTRY, c1902.
Muzzle Of A 14' Gun
British War Progress
Motor Cycle Ambulance
North Vietnamese Co-op
Russia: c. 1916 German soldiers dressing a deer carcass to eat.
Korean Armistice Building
WWI Motorized Warfare
Dishwashing In WWI
Indy 500 Crowd
Russian Sharpshooters
French Soldiers In Trenches
Searching For Viet Cong
Portrait of german statesmen
New York, New York: March 9, 1922 An Army private comes to attention and salutes as he hears the Star Spangled Banner sent wireless over a Marvel receiving radio set with a horn attached to throw the sound.
369th Infantry Regiment Band
New York, New York: March 19, 1920 A firing squad firing a salute over the grave of Oliver Dyer who fought in many batttles on World War I, and was gassed at the Battle of Argonne Forest. He was buried at Calvary Cemetary on Long Island.
Finding projectile
Ulysses Grant After the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, USA, June 1864
Shanghai, China: February 22, 1932 A barricade put up by the Shanghai volunteer corps at North Honan Road. An armored car is there for reinforcements.
France: c. 1915 A French soldier spied a German lookout in front of their position in the trenches and forced his surrender with a bayonet charge..
Austrian Army Ski Unit
Police Restraining Children
Hungarian Revolutionary poster of 1919, calling on workers to 'advance and save the world'.
Inside The Krupp Works
Detroit, Michigan: June 24, 1943 Blacks under arrest being booked into jail by a white police officer in the aftermath of the three days of riots over wartime housing.
Moscow, Russia: March 31, 1947 Soviet Marshall Koniev (L), and General Mark Clark(R), toast each other at a party given by Foreign Minister Molotov for the delegates to the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference. Soviet Deputy Foreign MInister Andre Gusiev watches.
Pontoon Bridge Over The Rhine
Belgian Soldiers In NY
French General Pierre Bosquet (center), Giving Orders to his Staff, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
Livonia, Michigan: 1952 Patton 48 tanks coming down the assembly line at the Livonia Ford plant.
Chicago, Illinois: c. 1933 Harold, 'Red' Grange uses a block of ice to show the form he used to score touchdowns during his football career.
Soldiers kneeling in courtyard
Admiral Heihachiro Togo on bridge of flagship
Navy Victory Fleet Parade
Marines At Operation Hastings
North Vietnamese Gun Crew
Howitzer Crew In Action
Viet Cong Camp
WWI: SIBERIAN TROOPS.
POW Catholic Church
Viet Nam War Protesters
Citizen Versus National Guard
German army recruits swearing, 1935
President Abraham Lincoln, 1862
Nguyen Van Thieu On Base Tour
General Westmoreland
Buffalo Soldier, full-length portrait in Uniform, William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, 1870's
Anti Vietnam War Demonstration
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
Army Relief Society Members
Minneapolis Truckers Strike
Fusing Bombs For North Vietnam
Iwo Jima Moument
German POWs With Stretchers
Poland: c. 1915 German soldiers repairing telegraph lines in Russian Poland.
United States: June 8, 1943 A U.S. Army sargent wounded in Africa in World War II is carried onto a hospital train upon his arrival back in the United States.
Hollywood, California: 1946 Actor Cary Grant as the charming knight in a scene from the film, 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'.
Maurice Murphy, on-set of the Film, "The Road Back", Universal Pictures, 1937
France: c. 1916 A periscope system devised by the French for staying below the level of the trenches and without exposing themselves to fire effectively at the Germans in the trenches opposite.
Washington, D.C.: May 24, 1946 Five soldiers stranded in Savannah, Georgia, arrive at Washington's National Airport after hitchhiking a ride on General Eisenhower's plane. Eisenhower was called back to Washington by the railroad strike crisis when President Truman declared the government would operate the railroads and he would use the Army as strikebreakers.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85), General of Union Army during American Civil War, 18th President of the United States 1869-77, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Photograph, Mathew B. Brady, Carte de visite, 1865
England: March 11, 1944 Commander of the Allied Invasion Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, stops to exchange a few words with men in an armored division. British General Bernard Montgomery wearing his beret is at right.
General Lohvitsky At Service
North Africa: c. 1943.Two French soldiers head to the American Red Cross Service Club along with the American soldiers for doughnuts and toasted cheese sandwiches.
Bell X-1-3 And B-50 Mothership
Italian general Ferraro
Col. William Hayward
Maywood, Illinois: July 20, 1925 Army pilots check their maps during their transcontinental flight between Selfridge Airfiled in Harrison, Michigan and San Francisco, California. Behind them is one of the 5 Curtis P-! Hawks open cockpit biplane fighter aircrafts that they are flying.
Illustration by Simons from 'Quand les sirenes' (1933)' by Maxence Van der Meersch
The Kitchen Debate
Everybody Is At The Beach
San Francisco, California: 1947 The crowds of tourists at the gift shop at the Cliff House.
New Haven, Connecticut: c. 1913 The Yale football team at practice. The quarterback is preparing to throw the ball.
Cleveland, Ohio: c. 1932 A view of the workers in the screw machine department of the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation.
Chicago, Illinois: January, 1943 The Union Station waiting room with sunlight streaming in the clerestory windows.
Soroka, Russia: September 1919 The last Americans to leave northern Russia. Much of the population of Soroka on the White Sea came to see them off.
Europe: November 16, 1926 A soiree of the Cercle Sportif.
Washington, D.C.: June 24, 1946 Thousands watch as Fred Vinson takes oath on the south portico of the White House to become the 13th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Washington, D.C.: March 10, 1937 Newspaper columnist and radio commentator Drew Pearson with co-author Bob Allen present members of the House of Representatives with autographed copies of their new satire on the Supreme Court, 'The Nine Old Men'.
New York, New York: December 22, 1927 People lined up at the parcel post window at the General Post Office in N.Y. to mail their Christmas packages.
Annapolis, Maryland: August 21, 1930 Naval Academy freshmen football practice started to day. Here are some of the275 recruits working out on the tackling dummy.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: c. 1926 Girls from the Sargent School for Physical Education making a pyramid for their upcoming show at the Boston Arena.
New York, New York: May 1, 1963 The enclosed loading platform at the Port Authority Bus Terminal being used by passengers boarding a bus for Maplewood.
New York, New York: c. 1938. A crowd on the streets in Manhattan.
French Generals Labousiniere & Beuret standing with Third Officer, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
French Marechal Pelissier, Full-Length Portrait in Uniform and Hat, Standing in front of Building, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
French General Pierre Bosquet, Three-Quarter Portrait, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
Salinas, California: September 17, 1936. News reporters and cameramen covering the Salinas lettuce workers' strike have equipped themselvers with gas masks after suffering the affects of tear gas on previous days.
New York, New York: September 3, 1972 A woman stands with her luggage at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
London, England: c. 1943 Civil Defense rescue workers searching the ruins for victims and survivors after a German V-1 flying bomb hit London's Balham district.
New York, New York: c. 1938. A family roller skates through Central Park heading towards 59th Street and the Essex House in New York City.
Lake Tahoe, California: March 29, 1934 Heavyweight contender Max Baer (with mailbag on shoulder) and friends on the dock at Globins Hotel on Lake Tahoe where he is training for his upcoming fight with champion Primo Carnera. The mail is delivered semiweekly.
Tuskegee, Alabama: 1906 The Tuskegee Institute faculty with Andrew Carnegie. L-R, seated in front row: R.C. Ogden; Mrs. Booker T. Washington; Booker T. Washington; Andrew Carnegie; and an unidentified person.
New Rifles For The Army
Oberleutnant Max Immelmann, German Air Ace Who Dropped the First Bombs & Propaganda Leaflets on Paris, France, September 1914
Berlin, Germany: c. 1933 Young women doing physical culture exercises to improve their posture.
Men Loading Air Mail Bags
Manchuria: c. 1938. Japanese troops shout three cheers for victories in the opening days of the campaign, as they stand at the last railroad station and the end of the telegraph lines, and will be off to the no-mans land of Jahol.
French General Cisse and group of Officers and Soldiers, Portrait in Various Styles of Uniforms; a Zouave Stands at Left, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
Baghdad, Iraq: October 6, 1932 King Faisal of Iraq broadcasting his speech during the celebration of Iraq becoming a member of the League of Nations.
Alison Skipworth, Publicity Portrait, on-set of the Film, "A Lady's Profession", Paramount Pictures, 1933
Alison Skipworth, Publicity Portrait, on-set of the Film, "He Learned about Women", Paramount Pictures, 1933
London, England: 1929 For the first time in history, the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium between Wigan and Dewsbury. Here a Dewsbury player passes to a teammate just as he is tackled.
Wartime In The Mountains
group of soldiers, selective focus on center of photo
Liberty Bond Drive.
Navy Football Team Arrives
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
FERDINAND FOCH & GENERALS.
JOSEPH-SIMON GALLIENI
Baroda, India: January 11, 1926. A group photograph of the 50th anniversary of the reign of His Highness, The Gaikwar of Baroda. He is seated in the center, surrounded by his mInisters of States.
BUFFALO SOLDIER.
U.S. MARINE, 1819.
Illustration from Revolution in Russia
James Stephens
First Arab witness before Royal Commission, 1936
A Cossack Firing From Horseback On His Pursuers
WWI French Dinner
Belgian Troops In Ruhr
Belgian Armored Car
Mattresses For Trenches
A Viet Cong Surrenders
Vietnam US Army Advisors
Marines To DMZ
Navy SEALS In Covert Op
POWS To Leave Hanoi
World War I recruitment poster in Trafalgar Square
CHINA: PEKING, c1902.
Print : etching, hand-coloured, of the modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat by the etcher Isaac Cruikshank.
Prince Napoleon, Full-Length Portrait Wearing Uniform, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, General, Confederate States Army, American Civil War, full-length Portrait, wearing Uniform, Illustration from a photograph by E. Anthony, Harper's Weekly, 1861
Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858), Commodore of U.S. Navy, Photograph, Mathew Brady, between 1854 and 1858
British Help American Soldiers
South Africa: c. 1900.Troops playing cricket in their camp during the Boer War.
Captured Belgian Artillery
Armistice At Spa
French soldiers wear gas masks to protect themselves from gas attack during World war One trench warfare. 1915
Governor General of Korea