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 639 items.
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Designating Flag, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps
- Description
- Rectangular wool bunting flag. White field with pigment painted design in center of flag. The design is a red shield with a white anchor that is crossed with a blue cannon (the cannon surmounts the anchor). Both the cannon and the anchor have black paint detailing on them. Two small reinforcement squares at the upper and lower hoist corners. Machine-stitched flat-felled panel seams. Machine and hand-stitched unbleached cotton pole sleeve with a grommet at each end. An inscription on the pole sleeve reads "9TH ARMY/CORPS 1ST DIVISION."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25284B
- catalog number
- 25284B
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, Headquarters, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting swallowtail flag. Blue field with white St. Andrew's cross in the center of the flag. Red number "6" is painted in the center of the cross. White cotton hoist. Machine stitching. The inscription on the hoist reads "Head Quarters 6 Army Corps."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228A
- catalog number
- 25228A
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting pennant flag. Red field with a white X, or St. Andrew's cross, in the center of the field. White hoist with no grommets. Inscription on hoist reads "Brg/Arty 6 Army Corps [very faint maker's mark follows this]".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1890-1897
- maker
- Robert C. Toy
- ID Number
- AF*25228B
- catalog number
- 25228B
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Red field with two diagonally crossed blue stripes that run from either end of the hoist to the opposite end of the fly. The stripes cross at the fork in the swallowtail. Painted in the center of the flag, to the left of where the stripes cross, is a white number "6". White hoist with no grommets. Inscription on hoist reads "Ch'f Q.M. 6 Army Corps".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228C
- catalog number
- 25228C
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Rectangular wool bunting flag. White field with red St. Andrew's cross in center of flag. White cotton hoist. Machine stitching. There is an L-shaped patch near the bottom edge, just to the hoist side of the cross. The inscription on the hoist reads "1st Div. 6 Army Corps."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228D
- catalog number
- 25228D
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with red St. Andrew's cross in center of flag. White cotton hoist. There is a line of long basting stitches that run from the point of the fly to the middle of the hoist (the stitches bisect the hoist at a ninety degree angle). Machine stitching. The inscription on the hoist reads "1st Brg. 1st Div 6 Army Corps."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1890-1897
- maker
- Robert C. Toy
- ID Number
- AF*25228E
- catalog number
- 25228E
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with blue border on hoist edge. In the center of the flag is a red St. Andrew's cross. White cotton hoist; on the bottom corner of the heading is a knot of twine. Machine stitching. The inscription on the hoist reads "2nd Brg 1st Div. 6 Army Corps."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228F
- catalog number
- 25228F
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with a blue border around all three sides. In the center of the flag is a red St. Andrew's cross. White hoist with no grommets; rope running through hoist. Inscription on hoist reads "3rd Brg. 1st Div. 6 Army Corps".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228G
- catalog number
- 25228G
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with blue triangles forming each corner. The edges of the triangles facing the center of the flag are convex. A red St. Andrew's cross (or X) is in the center of the flag. On the upper edge of the flag, to the left of the fly, is a patch repair. White hoist with no grommets. Inscription on hoist reads "4th Brg 1st Div 6 Army Corps".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1890-1897
- maker
- Robert C. Toy
- ID Number
- AF*25228H
- catalog number
- 25228H
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Designating Flag, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps
- Description
- Rectangular wool bunting flag. Blue field with white St. Andrew's cross in center of flag. White cotton hoist. Machine-stitched using brown threads (white threads used on cross). The inscription on the hoist reads "2nd Div. 6 Army Corps."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AF*25228I
- catalog number
- 25228I
- accession number
- 64127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center