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

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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
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateDecember 1, 1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm) Image: 8 × 6 3/8 in. (20.3 × 16.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.132
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center: "[NOTICE/ This picture is the property of the Associated/ Press and may be used only for the purposes of/ reproduction when authorized by the owner./ Not to be syndicated, rented, or loaned, (illegible)/ advertising purposes or for the purposes (illegible)/ The following credit must be printed/ (illegible) reproduction of this picture:/ ASSOCIATED (illegible)/ WIREPHOTO/ (illegible)]
Verso, center: [PROPERTY OF/ NEWSPAPER DIVISION/ JAN 1966/ FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.]"
Inscribed Recto, bottom: "(FOR USE WITH JOHN T. WHEELER FOREIGN SERVICE ADVANCE FOR PMS, THURS. DEC. 2)/ (NY14-Dec. 1)F5'S TESTED AGAINST ENEMY IN VIET NAM--Two U.S. Air Force F5/ Freedom Fighters which are among the dozen of the needlenosed fighters be-/ ing tested in Viet Nam 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. (AP Wirephoto) (pr41101stf-hf) 1965"
Verso, top left corner: "HF-VNM-156/ 900"
Verso, top center: "Airplanes N-156"
Verso, center: "20"
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
Unknown artist
Date: January 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.189
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.134
© Peter Turnley. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
Militia Fighters, Somalia
Peter Turnley
Date: 1992
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.23.23
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Horst Faas
Date: 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.125
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184
An electronic microscope takes photos of the pistol barrel. Items are microscopically tested to show indentations and markings found on the weapon and on the bullet, NYC
An electronic microscope takes photos of the pistol barrel. Items are microscopically tested to show indentations and markings found on the weapon and on the bullet, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1975
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.155
Photograph by John Bentham.
Palenque de los moros hecho con burros para defenderse del toro embolado (The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls), plate 17 from "La Tauromaquia" (The Bullfight)
Francisco Goya
Date: 1815, first published 1816
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1928.8
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Cerf frottant ses bois contre un arbre (Stag Rubbing His Antlers Against a Tree)
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: first cast 1857
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.14
Defense Against Tank Attack
Defense Against Tank Attack
William C. Palmer
Date: c. 1945
Medium: Gouache and crayon on tracing paper
Object number: WCP.619.5
Woman sunbathing against cityscape, New York
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Ken Heyman
Date: 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.57
Man leaning against building
Man leaning against building
Carlo Ponti
Date: 1870s
Medium: Albumen print from a collodion negative
Object number: 2020.9.172
Schoolgirl leaning against brick wall, Manchester, England
Schoolgirl leaning against brick wall, Manchester, England
Leonard Freed
Date: c. 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.121