My great-grandfather. His terms of service in the army ranged from 04/21/1898 to 07/26/1916. He was a private, a sgt., a sgt. major, a 1st Lt, and a 2nd Lt. Don't know when or where this picture was taken or what uniform he is wearing.
Images honoring the brave men & women who served in the armed forces, and photos of wars & conflicts from around the world.
These photos capture moments in military history. They show past events, battles, military campaigns, and images of those who served, providing a unique perspective of their sacrifices and triumph.
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Who doesn't love a man (or woman) in uniform? Almost everybody has worn a uniform sometime in their life - these are the vintage versions of those uniforms.
Uniforms are worn by many kinds of people - children and adults - in all kinds of organizations. Police, firefighters, nurses, paramedics, the military, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, sports teams, prisone...
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
I live in Tennessee and have been doing genealogical research on my families for a few years now, although I have not researched in about 5 years and am just starting again. My surnames are Stewart, Alvey, Taylor, Woodnutt, Payne, Pullen, and Thorpe. My Payne and Pullen are from VA, Loundoun and Fauquier Counties VA. My Stewarts migrated from NH to PA to MD to VA. The Alveys were decended from Joseph Alvey of England. The Woodnutts were from the Isle of Wight, England and came to America and changed their name to Taylor.