The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing

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The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
Artist/Maker (French, 1925 – 1996)
DateAugust 5,1981
MediumVintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 × 8 in. (30.2 × 20.3 cm) Image: 11 7/8 × 8 in. (30.2 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.122
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center (French): "L'EPREUVE DE FORCE EN POLOGNE/ 181 429/VARSOVIE, LE 5 AOUT 1981/ COMME PREVU, LE MOUVMENT DE GREVE AFFECTANT LES TRANSPORTS EN COMMUN DE VARSOVIE/ (MOUVMENT LARGEMENT PARTAGE PAR LA POPULATION ET SOUTENU PAR "SOLDARITE") S'EST / TERMINE A MIDI, LE 5 AOUT. A CETTE HEURE, LES POURPARLERS AVEC LE POUVOIR SE SONT/ ENGAGES, A PROPOS DE LA HAUSSE DES PRIX ET DES RESTRICTIONS ALIMENTAIRES. / JLG/MF"
Verso, center (English): "PHOTO: MICHEL PHILIPPOT/ SYGMA / 181 429/ THE TEST OF FORCE IN POLAND/ WARSAW, 5, AUGUST 5, 1981/ AS FORSEEN, THE STRIKE MOVEMENT WHICH AFFECTED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN WARSAW/ (A MOVEMENT WHICH RECIVED WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FROM THE POPULATION AND WAS BACKED/ BY SOLIDARITY) FINISHED AT NOON, ON AUGUST 5. AT THAT TIME, TALKS BEGAN BETWEEN THE AUTHORITIES AND THE STRIKERS ON THE INCREASE IN PRICES AND FOOD / RATIONING. / PHOTO: MICHEL PHILIPPOT / SYGMA"
Verso, horizontally across paper five times: "SYGMA/ 5 rue des Vignes, Paris 75016--Tel: 524 43 34"
Inscribed Verso, upper right: "MP-F-19 / 2500"
Verso, upper right: "FCC F 2878"
Walesa backs the Warsaw Strikers: the Solidarity Union has organized a warning strike lasting four hours in protest against the government's stalling in the discussion of claims. The strike was observed by ten million Polish workers. With Lech Walesa giving a speech
Walesa backs the Warsaw Strikers: the Solidarity Union has organized a warning strike lasting four hours in protest against the government's stalling in the discussion of claims. The strike was observed by ten million Polish workers. With Lech Walesa giving a speech
Michel Philippot
Date: March 27, 1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.120
Walesa's Combat: a meeting of the K.K.P. (National Solidarity Commission) with labor activist Lech Walesa
Walesa's Combat: a meeting of the K.K.P. (National Solidarity Commission) with labor activist Lech Walesa
Michel Philippot
Date: March 25,1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.121
F5's Tested Against Enemy in Vietnam: two US Air Force F5 Freedom Fighters which are among the dozen of the needle-nosed fighters being tested in Vietnam are shown circling the Black Virgin Mountain near Cambodian border in a strike against the enemy. A provisional squadron is carrying out an exhaustive 120-day test of these planes, weighing assets against some obvious drawbacks. Containers under bellies of planes are fuel tanks
F5's Tested Against Enemy in Vietnam: two US Air Force F5 Freedom Fighters which are among the dozen of the needle-nosed fighters being tested in Vietnam are shown circling the Black Virgin Mountain near Cambodian border in a strike against the enemy. A provisional squadron is carrying out an exhaustive 120-day test of these planes, weighing assets against some obvious drawbacks. Containers under bellies of planes are fuel tanks
Horst Faas
Date: December 1, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.132
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Inmate outside warden’s office, about to be transferred by local authorities, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.44
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Photograph by John Bentham.
Danny Lyon at Movement headquarters, Albany, Georgia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.31
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
A.M. Ivanov, initiator of the Patriotic Movement of Technical Engineering for the intelligentsia of the Kirov Tractor Factory in the Ural Industrial Complex
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: c. 1950 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.1
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Horst Faas
Date: 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.127
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 25, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.193
Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza ma per ordine di N'ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi (Remains of the Aqueduct of Nero which were to be destroyed on account of their age but remained standing by order of Pope Clement XIV), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza ma per ordine di N'ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi (Remains of the Aqueduct of Nero which were to be destroyed on account of their age but remained standing by order of Pope Clement XIV), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1775
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.19
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Date: March 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.265