Military - Overview
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.
"Military - Overview" showing 76 items.
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Dun-sur-Meuse
- Description
- A pencil and watercolor sketch on paper of Dun-sur-Meuse, France during World War I. The Meuse River occupies the foreground of the scene.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-11
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25976
- catalog number
- 25976
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dun-sur-Meuse
- Description
- A charcoal and watercolor sketch on paper of Dun-sur-Meuse, France. The Meuse River is in the foreground with a bridge in the background.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-11
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25977
- catalog number
- 25977
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Distant View of Hattonchatel
- Description
- A pencil and watercolor sketch on paper of Hattonchatel, France. The town sits atop a hill; in the field below is a barbed wire fence.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25980
- catalog number
- 25980
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Encampment at Rebeuville, Troops of the Forty-Second Division
- Description
- A charcoal and watercolor sketch on paper of a encampment at Rebeuville, France during September of 1918. Some soldiers of the forty-second division of the American Expeditionary Force are pictured here. This division participated in the St. Mihiel offensive, one the final battles of World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-09
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25982
- catalog number
- 25982
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Gateway at Verdun
- Description
- A pencil and watercolor sketch on paper of a gateway into Verdun, France. The Meuse river flows in the foreground. A bridge over the river leads to a tall fortification gate with a French flag flying. Behind the gate is the town of Verdun; a church steeple rises over the other buildings of the town.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-11
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25990
- catalog number
- 25990
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
In the Bishop's Palace, Verdun
- Description
- A pencil and watercolor sketch on paper. The sketch is of a room in the bishop's palace at Verdun, France during World War I. The focal point is a broken window in the center of the sketch. The rest of the room is also in disrepair. Through the window is a view of the village of Verdun.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*25999
- catalog number
- 25999
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
In Rebeuville
- Description
- Pencil and watercolor sketch on paper. The sketch depicts a building with steps leading to a second story door. There is a wagon parked in front of the steps, and American soldiers are standing or sitting around the building.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*26001
- catalog number
- 26001
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Square at Pont-a-Mousson
- Description
- Pencil and watercolor sketch on paper. American soldiers, mounted and on foot, move through the square of this small French town. An ambulance is in the right foreground. This scene was captured at the end of the First World War.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-11
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- ID Number
- AF*26051
- catalog number
- 26051
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Bridge at Neufchateau
- Description
- Crayon (charcoal), watercolor, and gouache on beige card. In this village scene, soldiers on horseback cross a bridge against the backdrop of Neufchateau.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Aylward, William James
- ID Number
- AF*25650
- catalog number
- 25650
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
A Lodging for the Night, 42nd Division
- Description
- Pen and ink with touches of graphite. Horizontal landscape format; village scene. Church tower and hills in background. Vehicles and a line of horses in foreground. Several soldiers moving about. Sketch done on white wove paper that is mounted on tan card with decorative ruled graphite lines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- maker
- Duncan, Walter Jack
- ID Number
- AF*25686
- catalog number
- 25686
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center