Joint Image Library

California State Military Department
The California State Military Museum
A United States Army Museum Activity
Preserving California's Military Heritage
Major General Walter P. Story Library and Research Center
Joint Image Library

Established as a separate activity in February 2009, the Image Library collects, catalogs, preserves, and makes available to historians, researchers, and the general public, photographs and digital images of California's rich military history.

If you have photographs, either "hard copy" or digital copies that depict our California military history, please consider donating them to the museum.

The following is an index of what is available for review:

General Photographic and Digital Image Collections

1st Battalion of Field Artillery, California National Guard Beatrice Lechtenfeld Collection, Battery C Stockton and Nogales, Arizona, 1916 Major General Otto Sandman Collection: Battery C, Mexican Border Service, 1916-1917
1st Composite Group Major General (California) Carl Aulick Collection: Camp Roberts 1956 and 1958
1st Engineer Fire Fighting Detachment
1st Squadron, Cavalry, California National Guard (Online Album) 1st Lt. George Olmsted Collection, Troop B (Company C, 145th Machine Gun Battalion) Capt. James Gunn Collection, Troop D (Headquarters Troop, 40th Division/6th Depot Division, American Expeditionary Force)
1st Separate Battalion of Engineers, California National Guard Wallace Mason Collection: 1916-1917
5th Infantry Regiment, California National Guard Howard W. Derby Collection, Batteries B and M, Mexican Border Service, 19 June - 7 October 1916
6th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, California National Guard Francis McQuaide Collection, Forts Barry and Winfield Scott
9th Infantry Regiment, California National Guard
40th Armored Division Major General Homer Eaton Collection: Annual Training, 1959 Combat Command A
40th Division Edward N. Jackson Collection: Camp Kearny, 1918 (Online Album)
40th Infantry Division World War II Colonel Kenwood Rohrer Collection Official Signal Corps Sets 1 and 2, World War II Surrender of the Imperial Japanese Army, Negros Island, Commonwealth of the Philippines, September 1945 1941 Fort Lewis Maneuvers
40th Infantry Division Engineer Brigade Colonel Michael Herman Collection, Iraq, 2004-2005
40th Ordnance Battalion
40th Tank Company San Luis Obispo, 1936 (Online Album)
49th Infantry Division Major General Paul R. Teilh Collection: Annual Training 1965 Annual Training 1966 Annual Training 1967
49th Infantry Division Artillery Brigadier General Andrew Wolf Collection
49th Military Police Company
59th Army Band
61st Fighter Wing Annual Training 1948
62nd Fighter Wing Annual Training 1947
111th Armored Cavalry Regiment
112th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade Brig Gen David Hardy Collection: Annual Training, Camp San Luis Obispo and Camp Cooke, 10-24 July 1949 (Three Volumes)
114th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade
115th Observation Squadron Lt.Col. Russell C.A. Larsen Collection, 1918-1940 Broadman C. Reed Collection, 1931-1942
116th Observation Squadron (Washington National Guard), Camp Merriam, 1936
117th Engineer Regiment: Wallace Mason Collection, 1917-1919
126th Medical Company (Online Album)
129th Rescue Wing
132nd Engineer Battalion
140th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion Don Donnelley Collection, Battery A, Korea
140th Aviation Regiment: Company A, 1st Battalion, Iraq, 2005 (Online Album)
143rd Field Artillery Battalion
143rd Field Artillery Regiment Russell Baker Collection, Camp Kearny, 1917-1918 (Digital Images Only)(Online Album) Richard Ochs Collection, San Luis Obispo, 1929 and 1931 (Online Album) Major General (California) Walter Titus Collection
144th Air Defense Group Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, 1968
144th Field Artillery Regiment
144th Fighter Wing (Online Album)
146th Airlift Wing (Online Album) Annual Training: 1960
146th Fighter Wing: Annual Training, 1954 Annual Training, 1955 Annual Training, 1956
146th Military Airlift Group Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, 1968
149th Armor Regiment 1st Battalion Annual Training, Fort Irwin, 1968
149th Aircraft Warning and Control Flight
149th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
159th Infantry Regiment (5th California)
160th Infantry Regiment (7th California)
163rd Fighter Wing Annual Training, 1956
163rd Reconnaissance Wing
184th Infantry Regiment (2nd California) 2nd Battle Group Airlift, Annual Training, 16 June 1959 Eyvind M. Faye Collection: Company B, 1930's San Luis Obispo and 1934 San Francisco Dock Strike Master Sergeant Dan Dorsa Collection: 1st Battalion (Air Assault). Iraq. 2004-2005 (Digital Images Only)
185th Armor Regiment 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 5th Battalion
185th Infantry Regiment Camp Merriam 1936 (Digital Images Only) Camp San Luis Obispo, 1950 (Digital Images Only) Service Company World War II Post World War II 1980 Reunion
194th Tank Battalion Company C Reunion, 24 January 1984
199th Tank Battalion
216th Communications Construction Squadron
217th Transportation Battalion
223rd Infantry Regiment Colonel Clarence J. Stewart Collection: 223rd Infantry Regiment, Camp San Luis Obispo, California, 1948
224th Infantry Regiment
233rd Antiaircraft Artillery Group
240th Signal Battalion
250th Coast Artillery Regiment (1st California) Camp McQuaide, 1931
251st Air Defense Artillery Regiment Battery D, 4th Missile Battalion (Nike Hercules), 251st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Los Angeles Defense Area Site LA-43 (White Point), August 1972
251st Coast Artillery Regiment Camp Malakole, Territory of Hawaii Eugene H. Fuson Collection, Camp Malakole, Territory of Hawaii, 1941 Anthony Iantorno Collection, Battery H, Camp Malakole, Territory of Hawaii, 1941
270th Military Police Company
271st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
272nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
397th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
561st Air Force Band
570th Military Police Company
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
720th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion (Nike-Ajax)
970th Military Police Company
981st Field Artillery Battalion Gerald Appelhaus Collection, 1951-1952
1402nd Engineer Battalion
Air Defense Artillery (Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules Programs)
Amphibious Training Base, Coronado
Amphibious Training Base, Morro Bay (Online Album) 9th Service Command Collection
Army Air Defense Command Los Angeles Defense Area San Francisco Defense Area
Bands 59th Army Band 561st Air Force Band
Benicia Arsenal (including Benicia Barracks and Benica Quartermaster Depot)
California Cadet Corps and High School Cadets Cadet Master Sergeant Gonzalo Zamora Collection: Porterville High School (Company B, 83rd Cadet Battalion, 3rd Brigade), 1999-2002
California Military Academy
California National Guard Armories and Readiness Centers Los Angeles Exposition Park Armory Palace and Lennie Studios Collection
California National Guard Rifle and Pistol Teams
Camp at Santa Rosa, August 1886 (1st Infantry Regiment, California National Guard) (Digital Images Only)
Camp Atascadero
Camp Beale
Camp Calexico
Camp Callan
Camp Clipper
Camp Cooke
Camp Del Mar
Camp Del Monte
Camp Fremont
Camp Joseph H. Pendleton
Camp Kearny (Online Album)
Camp Kohler (Including Sacramento Assembly Center and Walegra Engineer Depot)
Camp Lockett (including Mitchell General Hospital)
Camp McCormick (Hotel Huntington, Pasadena)
Camp Pinedale (Online Album)
Camp Parks and Parks Air Force Base
Camp Roberts
Camp San Luis Obispo (Including Camp Merriam) 9th Service Command Collection Palace and Lennie Studios Collection
Camp Santa Anita Annadorf German VilliageTraining Site
Camp Selfridge
Camp Tanforan
Camp Young and Shavers Army Air Field
Civil Disturbances San Francisco Dock Strike of 1934 Watts, Los Angeles, 1965 People's Park. Berkeley, June1969 (Online Album) Isla Vista/University of California at Santa Barbara, 1970 Diablo Canyon, 9-23 September 1981
Dairyland Prisoner of War Branch Camp, Madera, 1945 (Digital Images Only)
Firebaugh Prisoner of War Branch Camp, 1945 (Digital Images Only)
Five Point No.1 Prisoner of War Branch Camp, 1945 (Digital Images Only)
Fort Baker
Fort Barry Battery Alexander
Fort Bidwell
Fort Chronkhite Battery Townsley
Fort Funston Battery Davis
Fort Irwin
Fort MacArthur and the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles
Fort Mason (Online Album)
Fort McDowell
Fort Ord (including Camp Ord, Camp Gigling, and Gigling Range) Prisoner of War Camps, 1944-1945 (Digital Images Only)
Fort Rosecrans
Fort Winfield Scott (including Fort Point)
General Officers, United States Army General of the Army Omar Bradley General Jonathan Wainwright IV Welcome Home Parade, San Francisco, 9 September 1945 General Mark Clark General William C. Westmoreland
General Officers, State Military Forces (National Guard and State Military Reserve) Lieutenant General Anthony Palumbo Lieutenant General Herbert Temple Major General (California) Carl Aulick Major General Charles O. Ott, Jr. Major General Curtis D. O'Sullivan Farewell Luncheon Retirement Party Major General Daniel Hernandez Major General Daniel Hudelson Major General Earl Jones Major General Frank J. Schoeber Major General Glenn Ames Major General (California) Harcourt Hervey Major General Homer Eaton Major General Roy Green Major General (California) Samuel Backus Major General Thomas K. Turnage Major General (California) Wallace Mason Major General (California) Walter Titus Brigadier General (California) Donald Mattson Brigadier General George W. Fisher Brigadier General Victor Hanson
Georgetown Forest Fire, September 1960
Governors Edmund G "Jerry" Brown, Jr. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr. George Deukmajian Goodwin Knight Ronald Reagan Earl Warren
Hamilton Air Force Base (including Hamilton Field and Hamilton Army Airfield)
Hammer Field
Hancock College of Aeronautics Broadman C. Reed Collection, Class 40E, 1941
Los Angeles Port of Embarkation
Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Including Marine Barracks and Naval Magazine)
March Air Reserve Base (including March Field and March Air Force Base)
Mather Air Force Base (including Mather Field)
McClellan Air Force Base
Naval Air Station, Alameda
Naval Air Station, Los Alamitos
Naval Air Station, North Island
Naval Auxilary Air Station, Arcata Radford B. Allen, Jr. Collection
Naval Auxilary Air Station, Santa Rosa (Online Album)
Naval Hospital Corona
Naval Hospital Long Beach
Naval Hospital Mare Island
Naval Hospital San Diego
Naval Net Depot, Tiburon (Including Naval Coal Depot, California City Point)
Naval Rest Center, Sonoma
Naval Training and Distribution Center, Shoemaker
Naval Training Center, San Diego
Naval Training Center, Yerba Buena Island
Oakland Area Station Hospital
Oakland Army Base (Including Camp John T. Knight)
Office of the Adjutant General, California National Guard
Operation Avalanche, Winter 1962-1963
Operation Haylift, January 1949
Operation Minuteman, June 1955
Presidio of Monterey
Presidio of San Diego
Presidio of San Francisco
Point Arguello Coast Guard Station
Point Honda Naval Disaster
Pomona Ordnance Depot
Rifle and Pistol Teams
Rockwell Field (Online Gallery) Edward N. Jackson Collection, 1918 (Online Album)
Roseville Railyard Explosion
San Francisco Naval Shipyard (Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard)
Santa Maria Army Air Field
Santa Monica Recreational Camp
Soledad Prisoner of War Branch, 1945 (Digital Images Only)
State Defense Forces (Post 1916) Home Guard Military Reserve State Guard Company F, 4th Infantry Regiment, 1942 (Online Album) State Naval Guard State Militia Security and Defense Corps National Guard Reserve State Military Reserve
State Detachment, 1932-1942 Ray Christian Collection Captain Marshall J. Clarke Collection Ken Remwick Collection
Stockton Field (Digital Images Only) (Online Album)
Stockton Ordnance Depot and Stockton Air Force Station (Digital Images Only)
The Nationals
US Army Air Defense Command: Los Angeles Defense Area
USS Califoria (BB-44)
USS San Francisco (CA-38)
Van Nuys Army Air Field

Special Photographic and Digital Images Collection

Edward N. Jackson Collection (Camp Kearny and Rockwell Field) 1917-1919 (Digital Images Only)( (Online Album)
Eobert Dougherty Collection: 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, European Theater, 1944-1945

Updated 27 May 2010

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