[Women History][Women in Military] [Joan of Arc] Archive of 115 French postcards, ca. 1890–1930, documents the visual construction of Joan of Arc as armored military leader and nationalist symbol during the decades surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Third Republic, and the First World War. , documenting the military image and.....
Heroic biography woodblock print archive from the late Edo to early Meiji period, primarily featuring famed female samurai, Tomoe Gozen. Drawn from Eiyū Hyakunin Isshu ("One Hundred Heroic Figures with Poems"), the series combines portraits, concise biographies, and moralizing verse celebrating warriors, imperial loyalists, and legendary figures whose deeds formed.....
Empress Jingū woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada, Edo period, depicting Japan's legendary fourteenth empress as a warrior sovereign. Kunisada drew repeatedly on celebrated figures from Japanese history and legend, translating literary and theatrical subjects into richly colored ukiyo e designs that circulated widely among Edo audiences. Jingū occupied a distinctive.....
Female martial heroism woodblock print from the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, published in 1862 as part of Utagawa Toyokuni III's illustrated series Kokon Meifu Den (古今名婦伝), translated as "Famous Biographies of Women of Past and Present." The present sheet portrays Hangaku Gozen (板額女, more commonly 板額御前), the celebrated.....
Stanford University Military Engineering Archive Documenting the First Army Ordnance Reserve Gauging Program, ca. 1930. Stanford University photo archive documenting the emergence of interwar military-industrial technical education, ordnance gauging instruction, and precision engineering research on campus during the early development of Stanford’s engineering and applied science programs. Rather than depicting.....
The Officer’s Manual in the Field; or, a Series of Military Plans, Representing the Principal Operations of a Campaign, 1798 rare First English edition presenting late eighteenth century European military strategy through illustrated tactical instruction at the outset of the Napoleonic era. Translated from German under the patronage of the.....
[Mediterranean][Military] Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae. The 1539 Latin edition preserving the principal surviving account of the lost universal history of Trogus Pompeius, one of the most important pre-Christian narratives of Macedonian rule. Composed originally as an abridgment of Trogus’s forty-four-book history written under Augustus, Justinus’s text passes on essential.....
Muromachi Genji illustrated book set, 1866, adapting the prestige of Genji romance into late Edo serial fiction shaped by vendetta, disguise, domestic intrigue, theatrical confrontation, and supernatural violence. The work belongs to the gōkan market that transformed classical and medieval literary names into illustrated popular narratives for urban readers, here.....
[Travel and Maps][Military][Greece] Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Seventeenth century first edition history chronicling the Venetian reconquest of the Peloponnese during the Sixth Turkish–Venetian War, a contemporary Catholic and Venetian account of Ottoman–European military conflict in the eastern Mediterranean. Issued amid the campaigns of 1684–1687, when the Republic of Venice seized control.....
Women’s Royal Naval Service photograph album documenting life at HMS Royal Arthur, the Royal Navy’s training camp establishment at Skegness, where a prewar holiday camp was transformed into a military training and accommodation center during the Second World War. Named individuals throughout with handwritten identifications, the album follows Dorothy Gardner.....
WWI] [Military] Large archive of over 110 real photo, photographic, and color lithograph postcards documenting American military life and the First World War, ca. 1915–1919. Approximately one-third to one-half bear handwritten correspondence, captions, or identifications, with most of the correspondence sent by American servicemen to family and friends in the.....
World War I battlefield scenes documented in photographic postcards produced during the conflict between 1914 and 1918. The images record key elements of industrial warfare on the Western Front, including trench systems, artillery deployments, armored vehicles, aerial combat, and the destruction of urban centers in France. Together the photographs present.....
Pius VII, Pope. Writ of Excommunication of the Authors, Executors, and Instigators of the Usurpation of Rome, and of the States belonging to the Holy See, issued in 1809 during the conflict between the Papacy and the French Empire following Napoleon Bonaparte’s seizure of the Papal States. The document records.....
[Civil War] [Military] Owned by a Union soldier, named "R. Whitcomb", and later picked up by a Confederate soldier, Capt Brooks, in the Battle of Bull Run - the first major battle of the Civil War. Civil War infantry handbook two volumes. Hardee, William J. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics.....
Operation Deep Freeze U.S. Navy photo archive documenting the preparation and execution of the first flight from Africa to Antarctica, September 27 to October 1, 1963, a 4,700-mile airlift that demonstrated the expanding reach of the American Antarctic logistics network. The flight occurred as the United States was transforming its.....
Spanish American and Philippine American war US military photographs, circa 1898 to 1901, documenting the Spanish American War mobilization and the subsequent American occupation of the Philippines. A caption identifying “Co. B, Pa. Vol., Mt. Gretna” places one image within Pennsylvania’s 1898 volunteer encampment, where state militia companies entered federal.....
Un Hermaphrodite by Louis Jourdan examines the life of the Chevalier d’Éon, an eighteenth century French diplomat, soldier, and intelligence agent whose public identity challenged conventional understandings of gender in European society. The book recounts the career of Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, who served the.....
11th Airborne Division paratroopers photographed during the early American occupation of Japan document airborne training and daily military life within one of the most distinguished U.S. Army airborne units of the Second World War. More than two hundred photographs dating primarily from 1947 depict members of the 11th Airborne Division.....
Salmasius, Claudius. De Re Militari Romanorum Liber, 1657 advances seventeenth-century classical scholarship on Roman military organization at a moment when European states actively studied antiquity to inform contemporary warfare and governance. Composed by the French humanist Claude Saumaise and encouraged by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, the work situates Roman.....
Historical Record of the Life Guards, 1835 official regimental history documenting the formation and service of one of Britain’s elite cavalry units from the Restoration of Charles II through the early nineteenth century. Prepared under the direction of the Adjutant General, the work situates the Life Guards within the reestablishment.....
Vernacular photograph album of Troop F, 121st Cavalry, 1937–1938, documents National Guard training, public military display, and transitional cavalry practices in the interwar United States, when mounted units continued to operate alongside increasing mechanization and aviation integration. Stationed at Pine Camp in New York, now Fort Drum, the troop’s activities.....
USS Wasp CV 18 scrapbook, 1944 to 1945,Compiled by Second Lieutenant Ayers assigned to the USS Wasp CV 18, a concentrated documentary record of U.S. Navy carrier operations in the Pacific Theater during the final phase of World War II, preserving firsthand evidence of combat conditions, shipboard administration, and aerial.....
American Expeditionary Forces photographs, circa 1918 to 1919, document the presence and operations of U.S. soldiers in France during the final phase of World War I and provide direct visual evidence of frontline environments, military infrastructure, and communication units in active and recently contested zones. Several images include handwritten captions.....
Boxer Rebellion photographs dating from the turn of the twentieth century document the military intervention of the Eight Nation Alliance during the uprising known in Western sources as the Boxer Rebellion. The conflict developed between 1899 and 1901 when the Chinese Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists mobilized against foreign.....
Meyrick, Samuel Rush. Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824 first edition presenting a foundational study of European arms and armour from the Norman Conquest through the seventeenth century, situating military equipment within broader historical, cultural, and social frameworks. Meyrick’s work established one of the earliest systematic approaches to the study.....
