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U.S.S. Oregon, after bridge and search lights

U.S.S. Oregon, after bridge and search lights

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Oregon, after bridge and search lights

U.S.S. Oregon, after bridge and search lights

"Hart" and "863" on negative. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020825. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

U.S.S. Texas, searchlight from Vizcaya replacing one destroyed in Battle of Santiago

U.S.S. Texas, searchlight from Vizcaya replacing one destroyed in Batt...

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Texas, searchlight from Vizcaya replacing one destroyed in Battle of Santiago

U.S.S. Texas, searchlight from Vizcaya replacing one destroyed in Batt...

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021017. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

Washington Barracks -- anti-aircraft searchlights

Washington Barracks -- anti-aircraft searchlights

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Election night illumination, Flatiron Building

Election night illumination, Flatiron Building

Print shows people strolling in front of the Flatiron Building, which has lights in every window and a searchlight on the roof. 18606 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed on verso: "Compliments of N.Y. Sunday Americ... More

London searchlights, Thames River and Parliament Bldg.

London searchlights, Thames River and Parliament Bldg.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Why girls leave home / L.M. Glackens.

Why girls leave home / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows a mother sitting on a porch with a searchlight trained on her daughter and her boyfriend as they fly overhead in an airplane. Caption: The Maid-in-the-Air (to her Steady) I think it's awful... More

Nothing can keep it out / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Nothing can keep it out / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a strong beam of light labeled "Republican Tariff's Responsibility for High Cost of Living" flooding the home of a family sitting around a table; the beam of light comes from a tall building ... More

Searchlights over Charing Cross, London

Searchlights over Charing Cross, London

England, London. Night view over rooftops with searchlights glaring in all directions, giving church tower in far right a ghostly glow. Inscribed on verso of mount: 3957. Inscribed on verso of mount: TR 1643/42... More

Joseph Pennell - Searchlights behind St. Paul's

Joseph Pennell - Searchlights behind St. Paul's

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell. No. 398 in Wuerth, Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions.

It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb. Join the army at once & help to stop an air raid. God save the king / Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50, Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bo...

Poster showing a dirigible in the night sky over London, illuminated by a searchlight.

Each recruit brings peace nearer / printed by Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50 Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Each recruit brings peace nearer / printed by Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd.,...

Poster showing a searchlight beam in the night sky above London. Poster no. 86.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N.Y.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N...

Poster showing an airplane casting a searchlight on the water, as a sailor on a small gunboat peers through binoculars. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N.Y.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N...

Poster showing a patrol boat, and an airplane shining a searchlight on the sea.

Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh.

Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh.

Poster showing a battleship with searchlights flaring. Produced by Signal Corps USA and Committee on Public Information. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Boats. Navy boats at night with searchlights

Boats. Navy boats at night with searchlights

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Civilian defense. This overhead switch controls the output of a 110-volt direct current generator, operating at 10 kilowatts to supply power to provide power for the two searchlights on the roof of the huge Emergency Service truck. There are also several auxilliary lights runs out from the truck and powered by this generator. This truck in New York City is the only one of its kind, so far

Civilian defense. This overhead switch controls the output of a 110-vo...

Public domain photograph of New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Story. Coast artillery. Powerful searchlights in sandbagged emplacements like this play an important part in the work of the coast artillery at Fort Story, Virginia

Fort Story. Coast artillery. Powerful searchlights in sandbagged empla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did line welding on electric refrigerator condensors, is now working on the assembly of eight million candlepower, sixty-inch anti-aircraft searchlights being made for the U.S. Army. O'Rourke is one of the hundreds of refrigerator employees transferred to war work when the last civilian refregerator came off the lines

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did lin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right) and his father Leon Lapides, owners of the firm at work assembling signalling devices for the U.S Navy searchlights. Firm converted from manufacture of automotive accessories to ninety percent war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did line welding on electric refrigerator condensors, is now working on the assembly of eight million candlepower, sixty-inch anti-aircraft searchlights being made for the U.S. Army. O'Rourke is one of the hundreds of refrigerator employees transferred to war work when the last civilian refregerator came off the lines

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did lin...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on electric refrigerator condensors, is here shown at his old job. He is now using his skill in the assembling of high-powered, anti-aircraft searchlights

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on electric refrigerator condensors, is here shown at his old job. He is now using his skill in the assembling of high-powered, anti-aircraft searchlights

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York by Sperry searchlight, skyline from East River

New York by Sperry searchlight, skyline from East River

J233610 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Setting up large searchlight in advance lines, Vosges sector

Setting up large searchlight in advance lines, Vosges sector

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18838. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Setting up large searchlight in advance lines, Vosges sector

Setting up large searchlight in advance lines, Vosges sector

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18838. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1893) (14593821818)

The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1893) (14593821818)

Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches) Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint au... More