Military

The Museum's superb military collections document the history of the men and women of the armed forces of the United States. The collections include ordnance, firearms, and swords; uniforms and insignia; national and military flags and banners; and many other objects.

The strength of the collections lies in their enormous depth. Some 3,000 military small arms and 2,400 civilian firearms document the mechanical and technological history of the infantryman's weapons from the beginning of the gunpowder era to the present. Among the 4,000 swords and knives in the collection are many spectacular presentation pieces. The collections also include Civil War era telegraph equipment, home front artifacts from both world wars, early computers such as ENIAC, Whirlwind, and Sage, and materials carried at antiwar demonstrations.

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1500
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1500
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date printed
2021
date made
2001-10-08
maker
Berman, Nina
ID Number
2021.0057.0041
catalog number
2021.0057.0041
accession number
2021.0057
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1983-1984
date printed
2016
maker
Osinski, Christine
ID Number
2016.0112.02
catalog number
2016.0112.02
accession number
2016.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1940s
ID Number
2017.0309.0047
accession number
2017.0309
catalog number
2017.0309.0047
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1918-11-17
maker
Signal Corps' Army Pictorial Service and Army Communications Service
ID Number
2013.0327.0678
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0678

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