Text from back of image: "Nine men and a woman who were facing starvation in a loggers' camp on South Fox Island in northern Lake Michigan are tonight enjoying their first square meal in three weeks. A big De Haviland army plane took off from...
Civil wars; Military facilities; Military officers
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Morris Island, South Carolina
Location also known as Battery Wagner. Image depicts Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore (1825-1888) and his staff.
Civil wars; Military facilities; Military officers; Soldiers
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Morris Island, South Carolina
Location also known as Battery Wagner. Image depicts the headquarters of Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore (1825-1888).
Civil wars; Military facilities; Navies; Armored vessels
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Morris Island, South Carolina
Location also known as Battery Wagner. The ironclad U.S.S. New Ironsides is seen in the distance, in action against Confederate positions in Charleston Harbor.
An old stone and slate farmhouse on the shore of Lake Hayes, in the South Island of New Zealand. Lake Hayes is one of the most beautiful of the South Island lakes and this views show some of the magnificent scenery. Photographed in autumn, the...
In the foreground on Yerba Buena Island, can be seen the highways leading to Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay site of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Motorists drive to Treasure Island via the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge....
Text from back of image: "Landing without misap on the famous island of Lanai in the Hawaiian group, Lieuts. W. C. Goldsborough, E.S. Davis, and Sergt. Harold Fischer of the United States Army Air service are the first men to successfully land an...
The Fenwick Island shoals were hazardous to ships moving north from Assateague Lighthouse to Cape Henlopen Lighthouse. The U.S. Lighthouse Board was instrumental in building the Fenwick Island lighthouse in 1859, which began its 119 years of...
Typed caption: "A freighter approaches from the north through Seymour Narrows between Vancouver Island and Maud Island, some 120 miles north of Vancouver. Here two underwater peaks, known as Ripple Rock, long a peril to navigation, were blasted...
Aerial photograph of Fisher's Island, with Mansion House #10 marked. William du Pont, Jr. and his family stayed at this cottage during the summer of 1940.
