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 672 items.
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Concord, Mass.: In celebration of 150th anniversary of beginning of the Revolutionary War, members of the British Veterans association, Legion Men, National Guard, and Minute Men joined in tribute to the dead of 1775. Photo shows Major General Preston Brown placing a wreath on the grave of an English Regular. 5/25/26. 1928 Photonegative 1926
- Notes
- U&U caption in file box
- Currently stored in box 3.1.70 [227A]
- Date
- 1926
- 1920-1930
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 18411
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Concord, Mass.: British veterans pay tribute to Minutemen and Redcoats alike at 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Photo shows taps being sounded at a grave of a British soldier. 5/25/26. [Active no. 1929 : photonegative, 5/25/26 [1926]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.1.70 [227A]
- Orig. no. A-204
- Date
- 1926
- 5/25/26 1926
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 18412
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Military parade in Japan.] 395 interpositive
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.2.17 [4]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- Ponting, Herbert George 1870-1935
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 8498
- Video number 07661
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Restauration and Defense of British Liberty in South Africa. Series 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.] on negative. 20218 photonegative 1900
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.1.49 [68]
- Date
- 1900
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 15872
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Troops on parade ground in India.] 8637 interpositive 1906
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.26 [219]
- Date
- 1906
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- Gridwood
- Local number
- RSN 22783
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Cavalry of Gen. Gomez's army, Remedios. 6548 interpositive
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.52 [130]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Subject
- Gomez General
- Local number
- RSN 26922
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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
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