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Buenos Aires - Bomberos con máscaras respiratorias

Buenos Aires - Bomberos con máscaras respiratorias

Español: Buenos Aires, bomberos con cascos respiratorios, 1925. Inventario AGN 18651

Gas shell (AWM 028467) - Australia in World War Two

Gas shell (AWM 028467) - Australia in World War Two

AWM Caption: SINGLETON, AUSTRALIA. 1943-01. EXPERIMENTAL SHOOT OF GAS-SHELLS BY 2/2ND FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY. AN OBSERVER WHO HAS MOVED INTO THE GAS-AFFECTED TARGET AREA TO RECORD RESULTS, E... More

A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. D3918

A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. D3918

A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. A mother cradles her newborn baby in bed, shortly after giving birth. The mother is wearing her civilian respirator, whilst the baby is encased in a baby gas he... More

A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at a London hospital in 1940. D651

A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at...

A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at a London hospital in 1940. A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at a London hospital.

Air Raid Precautions in Britain- Staff of the Ministry of Information Wear Gas Masks To Work, London, England, 1941 D3745

Air Raid Precautions in Britain- Staff of the Ministry of Information ...

Air Raid Precautions in Britain- Staff of the Ministry of Information Wear Gas Masks To Work, London, England, 1941 L M MacBride of the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information sends a cable to 'Par... More

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 D3940

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 D3940

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask checks that his stirrup pump is in order at his post, somewhere in Britain, c 1941.

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 D3955

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 D3955

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front, C 1941 A group of Air Raid Wardens relax with a game of darts at their ARP post, between calls. All are wearing their duty gas masks, showing that life can go on... More

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front- Anti-gas Instruction, c 1941 D3948

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front- Anti-gas Instruction, ...

Air Raid Precautions on the British Home Front- Anti-gas Instruction, c 1941 A couple relax in armchairs in front of the fire whilst wearing their gas masks. Civilians were encouraged to wear their masks for 1... More

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during the Second World War. D4053

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during t...

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during the Second World War. A head and shoulders portrait of an Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask. The steel helmet has a... More

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during the Second World War. D4054

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during t...

An Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask during the Second World War. A head and shoulders portrait of an Air Raid Warden wearing his steel helmet and duty gas mask. The warden also wears ... More

An air-raid warden sounds a gas alert with his rattle during an exercise, 14 March 1940. HU88535

An air-raid warden sounds a gas alert with his rattle during an exerci...

An air-raid warden sounds a gas alert with his rattle during an exercise, 14 March 1940. A practise warning being sounded on a gas rattle in case of a gas attack.

An ARP Warden wearing a gas mask tidies the hose of his stirrup pump at an ARP post in Britain during the Second World War. D3892

An ARP Warden wearing a gas mask tidies the hose of his stirrup pump a...

An ARP Warden wearing a gas mask tidies the hose of his stirrup pump at an ARP post in Britain during the Second World War. An ARP Warden wears a gas mask as he crouches down to tie the hose of his stirrup pump... More

Anti-gas Clothing For Air Raid Wardens, 1941 D3494

Anti-gas Clothing For Air Raid Wardens, 1941 D3494

Anti-gas Clothing For Air Raid Wardens, 1941 A half length portrait of an Air Raid Warden wearing gas protective clothing, gas mask and steel helmet. The gas protection outfit is an oilskin overall, similar in... More

Army Printing and Stationery Section First World War Collection Q35961

Army Printing and Stationery Section First World War Collection Q35961

Army Printing and Stationery Section First World War Collection Demonstration by the 11th Canadian Brigade Tumpline Company. On left: showing the possibility of continuing work with the tumpline whilst wearing ... More

British Forces in Cyprus 1942 E9027

British Forces in Cyprus 1942 E9027

British Forces in Cyprus 1942 Motorcycle despatch riders wearing gas masks during a section of a 50-mile motorcycle trial in Cyprus, 3 March 1942.

British Medical Services in the Second World War E18051

British Medical Services in the Second World War E18051

British Medical Services in the Second World War Specialist Medical Services: Anaesthetists carrying out experiments using an improvised piece of apparatus to see whether it was possible to administer a general... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General IB4336C

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General IB4336C

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General China 1944: Two Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks at Pihu Military Training Centre in south eastern China.

Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century H23183

Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century H23183

Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century The Second World War: A British mountain-warfare trooper wearing an assault respirator fitted with side mounted canister whilst training in Scotland.

Commonwealth Forces in North Africa 1942 E10324

Commonwealth Forces in North Africa 1942 E10324

Commonwealth Forces in North Africa 1942 New Zealand troops wearing gas masks while operating radio equipment during an exercise, 1942.

Gas Mask Drills during the Second World War HU36136

Gas Mask Drills during the Second World War HU36136

Gas Mask Drills during the Second World War The boys of Chislehurst and Sidcup County School file down the glass-walled staircase in their gas masks during a gas drill at school.

Gas Masks For Mules F2672

Gas Masks For Mules F2672

Gas Masks For Mules Gas masks were introduced during the Second World War for mules. This image shows the mask being fitted to a mule. The animal makes no serious objection to the mask being fitted, perhaps thi... More

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 D2332

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 D2332

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 The air conditioning unit in the Operating Theatre at Guy's Hospital has a gas filter attached. If the power fails, it can be operated by hand. This ph... More

Hawker Hurricane at Lille-Seclin - Royal Air Force - France, 1939-1940 C1154

Hawker Hurricane at Lille-Seclin - Royal Air Force - France, 1939-1940...

Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. An airman, wearing gas clothing and mask, holds down the wing of a Hawker Hurricane Mark I of No. 85 Squadron RAF during a gas attack practice at Lille-Seclin.

London Schools in Wartime- School Life in London, England, 1941 D3162

London Schools in Wartime- School Life in London, England, 1941 D3162

London Schools in Wartime- School Life in London, England, 1941 School children line up in the playground during a gas mask drill at Old Woolwich Road School, Greenwich. The teacher is adjusting the strap on o... More

Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Q33348

Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Q3334...

Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Standing in most deadly fumes of gas on the training school.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. CH446

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. CH446

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. Two airmen dressed in heavy anti-gas clothing and carrying gas detectors, sound warning rattles during a gas exercise at Mildenhall, Suffolk.

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H32390

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H32390

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 A trainee Army driver with an instructor learns how to drive in a gas mask. This and other photographs were part of a safety training exhibition organised by the... More

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H1050

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H1050

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 A mounted lance corporal of the Household Cavalry wearing a gas mask, Windsor, 1939. His horse is also wearing a gas mask.

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H143

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H143

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Bofors gun crew ready for action, wearing gasmasks, November 1939.

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H85

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H85

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st Highland Division, trying on gas masks, November 1939.

The Campaign in North Africa 1941 E6034

The Campaign in North Africa 1941 E6034

The Campaign in North Africa 1941 Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A17146

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A17146

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The crew of HMSM TRIBUNE inspect their gas masks on deck before going ashore at HMS DOLPHIN, home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service, Gosport.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3261

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3261

The Royal Navy during the Second World War At a Signal School in one of Britain's principal naval bases (possibly HMS DRAKE). A class under instruction in wireless telegraphy wearing their gas respirators to pr... More

The Royal Navy during World War Two A3260

The Royal Navy during World War Two A3260

The Royal Navy during World War Two At a Signal School in one of Britain's principal naval bases (possibly HMS DRAKE). A class under instruction in wireless telegraphy wearing their gas respirators to prepare t... More

War Office Second World War Official Collection E18586

War Office Second World War Official Collection E18586

War Office Second World War Official Collection Women soldiers with gas masks

A Chinese squad deployed outside Shanghai

A Chinese squad deployed outside Shanghai

A Chinese squad deployed outside Shanghai. Gas masks were standard issue, at least among the best Chinese units, and there were several reports of the use of gas on either side during the campaign, although it ... More

Chinese soldiers aiming Shansi Type 17

Chinese soldiers aiming Shansi Type 17

Chinese soldiers aiming Shansi Type 17 Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks and armed with a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun

Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks and armed with a Czech ZB vz. 26 li...

Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks and armed with a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun.

Wartime drill at Kenseicho 1939 01

Wartime drill at Kenseicho 1939 01

中文: 建成町防災演習。 Public domain photograph - Chinese people, China history, government, and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wartime drill at Kenseicho 1939

Wartime drill at Kenseicho 1939

中文: 建成町防災演習。 Public domain photograph - Chinese people, China history, government, and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soldiers trying out their gas masks in every possible way. Putting the respirator to good use while peeling onions.... - NARA - 530714

Soldiers trying out their gas masks in every possible way. Putting the...

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Evacuees in Montgomeryshire (4346388594)

Evacuees in Montgomeryshire (4346388594)

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Faciwis yn Sir Drefaldwyn Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002) Dyddiad/Date: September 9, 1939. Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd / Negative Cyfeiriad/Reference: (gcc00891) Rhi... More

Gas masks being tested by ARP wardens at Welshpool (4365436980)

Gas masks being tested by ARP wardens at Welshpool (4365436980)

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Wardeniaid ARP yn profi mygydau nwy yn Nhrallwng Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002) Nodyn/Note: Image shows Sgt. Kinsley Jones fitting, adjusting and explaining gas... More

Indian infantry in the trenches, prepared against a gas attack (Photo 24-300)

Indian infantry in the trenches, prepared against a gas attack (Photo ...

Indian infantry in the trenches, prepared against a gas attack [Fauquissart, France].

StateLibQld 1 102384 Air Raid Warden testing new equipment in Brisbane, October 1942

StateLibQld 1 102384 Air Raid Warden testing new equipment in Brisbane...

Air Raid Warden testing new equipment in Brisbane, October 1942. Description: See Courier Mail, 22 January 1942, p. 3. Wardens want helmets.

LA smog masks - A black and white photo of a group of people sitting at a table

LA smog masks - A black and white photo of a group of people sitting a...

Title: Highland Park Optimist Club wearing smog-gas masks at banquet, , circa 1954. in the Highland Park district, Northeast Los Angeles, Southern California. Publication:Los Angeles Daily News Publication dat... More

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961

Finnish soldiers in NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) gear, 1961

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937 (cropped1to1)

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937 (crop...

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces troops in gas masks prepare for an advance in the rubble of Shanghai, China.

Fighting fire and smoke - Helsinki, Finland

Fighting fire and smoke - Helsinki, Finland

Men from the civil defense with gas equipment next to a fire engine at the statue Three smiths in an exercise in 1939. Svenska: Civilförsvarsmän med gasutrustning kring en brandbil vid statyn Tre smeder i en ... More

Kaasumyrkytyksen saanutta kuljetetaan

Kaasumyrkytyksen saanutta kuljetetaan

An intoxicated person is carried away in an exercise, apparently near the current Kamp metro station in Helsinki. Svenska: En gasförgiftad person bärs bort under en övning, tydligen i närheten av dagens Kamp ... More

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 (PNG version) (cropped)

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 (PNG version) (cropped)

Finnish Defence Forces soldiers in Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) gear.

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 (PNG version)

Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 (PNG version)

Finnish Defence Forces soldiers in Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) gear.

1919postcard-Yanksintrench

1919postcard-Yanksintrench

1919 postcard image of World War I U.S. troops in front-line trench, wearing French-made M2 gas masks. See http://www.firstdivisionmuseum.org/museum/online/toward_the_front/fog_of_war_gas_attacks/default.aspx ... More

ME vuurt traangas, Bestanddeelnr 931-6912

ME vuurt traangas, Bestanddeelnr 931-6912

Deutsch: Blockade und Demonstration gegen das Kernkraftwerk Dodewaard. Die „Mobiele Eenheid“ schießt mit Tränengasmunition.Nederlands: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : Demonstrati... More

Onwelgeworden ME-er, Bestanddeelnr 931-6908

Onwelgeworden ME-er, Bestanddeelnr 931-6908

Deutsch: Blockade und Demonstration gegen das Kernkraftwerk Dodewaard. Mitglieder der „Mobiele Eenheid“ helfen einem gestürzten Kollegen.Nederlands: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie... More

3rde Year Type anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Naval Landing Force

3rde Year Type anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Naval Landing Force

8cm 3rd Year Type anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Naval Landing Force

8cm 3rd Year Type anti-aircraft gun

8cm 3rd Year Type anti-aircraft gun

8cm 3rd Year Type anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Naval Landing Force

Battle of Khalkhin Gol-Japanese soldiers

Battle of Khalkhin Gol-Japanese soldiers

Battle of Khalkhin Gol-Japanese soldiers Public domain photograph related to Russian military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gasmask JPN (1938). Japanese empire during World War Two.

Gasmask JPN (1938). Japanese empire during World War Two.

ガスマスクの付け方を市民に指導する警察官。1938年(昭和13年)。

Japanese artillery soldiers with gas masks, Changsha, 1941

Japanese artillery soldiers with gas masks, Changsha, 1941

Japanese artillery soldiers with gas masks, smoke screen at the Hunan Front near Changsha, 1941 (Shashin Shuho No 189, October 8, 1941)日本語: 長沙近郊湖南戰線の煙幕中文:第2次长沙会战日军第6师团放煙幕

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces troops in gas masks prepare for an advance in the rubble of Shanghai, China.

Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force assaulting near Ch'ung-te School for Girls, Barchet Road

Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force assaulting near Ch'ung-te School ...

Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force assaulting near Ch'ung-te School for Girls, Barchet Road日本語: 敵前十米正に突撃に入らんとする刹那の我が陸戰隊○○隊 (崇德女學附近), 白保羅路 (新鄉路)

Pioneers Defense Drill Leningrad USSR 1937 Photographer Viktor Bulla

Pioneers Defense Drill Leningrad USSR 1937 Photographer Viktor Bulla

1937: Pioneers defense drill, Leningrad Оборона пионеров. Ленинград (1937) Public domain photograph related to Soviet Union history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Free french navy sloop 1940

Free french navy sloop 1940

The French Browning Machine Gun being manned by two crew members wearing gas masks. They are on board the French sloop FFS COMMANDANT DUBOC at Plymouth. The ship is manned entirely by Free Frenchmen. Note the ... More

HMS Broke BL 4.7 inch gun and crew 1940 IWM A 526

HMS Broke BL 4.7 inch gun and crew 1940 IWM A 526

Gunners wearing gas masks on British destroyer HMS Broke, with BL 4.7 inch gun.

Loading QF 4 inch Mk V HA gun IWN A 1522

Loading QF 4 inch Mk V HA gun IWN A 1522

IWM caption : The 4 inch High Angle anti aircraft gun crew on board a destroyer in action. The men are wearing gas masks.

Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks

Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks

British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun bar... More

Czech Legion soldiers in gas masks

Czech Legion soldiers in gas masks

Русский: russian side of the eastern front. soldiers wearing early gas masks

Arbeider in beschermende uitrusting (gasmasker) voor het besproeien van planten…, Bestanddeelnr 190-0674

Arbeider in beschermende uitrusting (gasmasker) voor het besproeien va...

Nederlands: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie : Productfoto's; plantenkas Beschrijving : Arbeider in beschermende uitrusting (gasmasker) voor het besproeien van planten in de ka... More

Wearing Gas Masks NGM-v31-p325

Wearing Gas Masks NGM-v31-p325

WEARING GAS MASKS AT THE BENCHES. It is not alone in the trench that the soldier must guard against poisonous gas and dust. These women soldiers of the munitions plants must be similarly protected. Русский: ... More

Legiony Polskie - alarm gazowy during World War I

Legiony Polskie - alarm gazowy during World War I

Polski: Legiony Polskie: Alarm gazowy. Public domain photograph of pre-war Polish army, Second Polish Republic military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese armed force rescues the wounded in WWII

Chinese armed force rescues the wounded in WWII

Wearing gas masks the Chinese armed force rescues the wounded during battles.中文:配戴防毒面具國軍部隊於戰鬥期間救護傷兵

Soldaty 267 Duhovshinskogo polka

Soldaty 267 Duhovshinskogo polka

Русский: Солдаты Духовщинского полка в противогазах Зелинского-Кумманта, 1916.

Belgian Troops with Early Gas Masks

Belgian Troops with Early Gas Masks

Belgian machinegunners with very early gas masks during World War I.

Französischer Infanterist mit Gasschutz auf Wache

Französischer Infanterist mit Gasschutz auf Wache

A French sentinel in a gas mask Deutsch: Französischer Infanterist mit Gasschutz auf Wache

Victor Bulla - Young Pioneers Defence

Victor Bulla - Young Pioneers Defence

Оборона пионеров. Ленинград (1937) Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anti-aircraft-artillery-waiting-for-reported-hostile-aviator-391773002115

Anti-aircraft-artillery-waiting-for-reported-hostile-aviator-391773002...

Svenska: Luftvärnsartilleriet å Sverige i väntan på inrapporterade fientliga flygare.

Camp Kinser Demo 2

Camp Kinser Demo 2

Camp Kinser, Okinawa. Briefing session For Operation Red Hat, May 11, 1971, a demonstration for Japanese press of actions that would be taken in the event a chemical munition was found to be leaking during tra... More

Camp Kinser, Red Hat, Retrograde

Camp Kinser, Red Hat, Retrograde

Camp Kinser, Okinawa. Briefing session For Operation Red Hat, May 11, 1971, a demonstration for Japanese press of actions that would be taken in the event a chemical munition was found to be leaking during tra... More

Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development Section; summary of achievements, 1917-1918 (1918) (14597806950)

Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development...

Identifier: cu31924030765899 (find matches) Title: Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development Section; summary of achievements, 1917-1918 Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: United States... More

Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development Section; summary of achievements, 1917-1918 (1918) (14761505186)

Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development...

Identifier: cu31924030765899 (find matches) Title: Chemical development Section (and) Mechanical Research and Development Section; summary of achievements, 1917-1918 Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: United States... More