Civil Collection (page 3)

Ulysses S. Grant - US President and Military Commander
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) - 18th president of the United States (18691877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. Date: circa 1920s

LFB-AFS convoy and fire exercise
Part of the Civil Defence Corps until it was disbanded in the late 1960s, the Auxiliary Fire Service consisted of volunteer firefighters who would attend a fire station for drill and training

Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters, WW2
Blitz in London -- a personal photograph, taken by a colleague, of life in the AFS at a sub-station, showing firewomen on the Heavy Unit of Sub-station 67Z

General Grants cavalry escort, City Point, Va. March, 1865. Group portrait with 5 buglers at left. Date 1865 Mar. printed later

Serbian detachment, Nadvoitsa, Murmansk, Russia
A Serbian detachment standing to attention on the railway siding at Nadvoitsa (Nadvoitsy), Murmansk, during the Russian Civil War. Date: 1919

American sailors in Vladivostok, Russia
The arrival of American sailors from the USS Albany in Vladivostok, Russia, as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Date: circa 1919

Poster advertising the Special Constabulary, seeking fit men and women for part-time voluntary service. Civil Defence is Common Sense. Ask for details at your local police station. 1940s

Worton, Wiltshire - WWII - Civilian Fire Fighters and their trailer fire engine! Date: circa 1941

Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander
Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (1874-1920), Russian naval commander during the First World War, polar explorer, and leader of the anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War

Map of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the US Civil War when Ulyssess Grant and his army of the Tennessee drove the Confederate army of John C Pemberton back to Vicksburg and besieged the city

Policeman and policewoman with gas masks
A policeman and a policewoman wearing civilian gas masks outside Harrow Road Police Station (X Division) before the outbreak of World War Two. The respirator is contained in the canvas bag

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Americans in Russia
American troops are sent to Vladivostok to safeguard U.S. interests there : Americans will have a deep-seated terror of communism for decades to come

Map of North America, 1845
Map of North America, showing the United States as they were pre-Civil War, 1845

Members of the POUM march through Barcelona; Spanish Civil W
Photograph showing members of the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) marching along one of the avenues of Barcelona, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Monitor / Merrimac / Card
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship

American Civil War
Federal guns of Battery Stevens used to bombard Fort Sumter during the American Civil War

Scythian armour and weapons
Scythian breastplate, shield, helmet and maces from the Column of Theodosius in Constantinople (Istanbul). Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his

Duchess of Cleveland, from a painting by Sir Peter Lely.. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin

de Havilland DH. 104 Dove 6 G-ANUU
de Havilland DH.104 Dove 6 G-ANUU (msn 04455) of the Civil Aviation Flying Unit. G-ANUU flew with the Board of Trade - Department of Trade

Agusta Bell AB204B Iroquois Huey
Agusta Bell 204B Huey Helicopter

Avro 618 Ten / X / 10
Pilot Charles Kingsford-Smith and His Avro 618 Ten, Named Southern Star Unloading at Croydon after the First Flight from Australia with Christmas Post / Mail 16th December 1931 Date: 1931

Voisin Bird of Passage biplane
John Theodore Cuthbert Jtc Moore-Brabazons Voisin Bird of Passage Biplane Number 4 Parked Outside the Short Brothers Hangar at Leysdown in 1909 Date: 1909

Santos Dumont No 14bis
Mr Alberto Santos Dumont Taxiing His 14Bis before Flying a Distnce of 60 Metres at a Height of 3 Metres to Gain the Archdeacon Prize, Paris, France Date: 1906

Sir John Meldrum
SIR JOHN MELDRUM Military commander in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. Date: ? - 1645

Battle of Nantwich / 1644
The Battle of Nantwich

Buchanan Installed
James Buchanan takes the oath of office as president : though a brilliant lawyer, he will not be able to prevent the nation drifting into civil war

Wright Flyer
Rudder of Alec Ogilvies Wright Flyer When the Handle of the Control Lever is Turned over As Shown Date: 1911

Confederate Cruiser Pampero
The Pampero, launched in October 1863 in Glasgow, was subsequently detained due to suspicion that it was intended to be used on the Confederate side of the U.S. Civil War

William Low, surveyor and civil engineer. Low formed the Channel Tunnel Company and was the first to make realistic plans for the construction of a tunnel

Ruins on the Canal Basin, Richmond, Va. Date photographed in April 1863, printed later

Panorama of Richmond, Virginia after capture by Federals
Panorama of the city of Richmond, Virginia (the top engraving joins with the lower one, end to end) in April 1865 when it was entered by Federal troops after the Confederacy had evacuated the city

Sir Eric Geddes
Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB, GBE, PC (26 September 1875 - 22 June 1937), British businessman and Conservative politician

General James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864)
Portrait of General James Ewell Brown Stuart, better known as Jeb Stuart, of the Confederate Army; pictured during the American Civil War

The Civil War in America: Fight at Rainsville, on the upper
Advance of the Wisconsin men, showing Federalists(Unionists), on the secessionist position. Part of the first battle of Bull Run

A Confederate flag during the American Civil War, 1863
Engraving of a flag made and waved by a Confederate lady, Miss Laura Lee, of Winchester, who later gave the flag to the ILN special artist, Frank Vizetelly

Communards in Flight
In the final stages of the civil war, Communards abandon their barricade in the rue de Rennes as the government forces advance into the heart of Paris

Trial of Charles I
Charles I leaves Westminster Hall after his trial

18th Century Taxation
Satire on the taxes with which people were burdened in the latter 18th century

Hunleys David Submarine
Cross-section of Hunleys man-powered David (as in David and Goliath) of the Confederate Navy, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel

Nathaniel Fiennes
NATHANIEL FIENNES Parliamentary general during the Civil War

William Waller (Anon)
WILLIAM WALLER Parliamentary general during the Civil War

Battle of Langport
BATTLE OF LANGPORT, Somerset The Parliament army under Fairfax delivers a crushing defeat to the Royalists under Goring

John Rennie / Sepia Anon
JOHN RENNIE Scottish civil engineer

Robert E Lee / Iln / Civ War
ROBERT EDWARD LEE American Confederate general in North Virginia during the American Civil War

Fort Sumter Bombarded
The bombardment of Fort Sumter

The Battle of Newbury

Gambling / Dice / USA / 1863
American Civil War soldiers are punished for gambling by being compelled to gamble

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