Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group

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Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Artist/Maker (German-born Israeli, born 1930)
Date1983
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 × 8 13/16 in. (15.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 7 × 9 7/16 in. (17.8 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.15
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Markings Verso, upper half (typed plack ink): "Israeli HQ in Tyre ombed by suicide mission. Distrib 83-238 / Fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with / explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre / in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security / guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the / actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot / caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed / to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslem [incorrectly corrected to 'Muslem' from 'Muselm'] group."

Verso, upper half (typed plack ink): "Photos by Micha Bar'Am"

Verso, upper half (stamp, black ink): "PRESSFOTO"

Verso, upper half (typed black ink): MAGNUM Photos 20 rue des Grands Augustins, Paris 6e. France.

Verso, lower center (stamp, purple ink): "AGENCIA / ZARDOYA / Castoner, 7 - 08022 BARCELONA / Telefonos 212 57 08/12 - 212 52 62"
Signature Verso, upper right (pencil): "Micha Bar-Am"
Inscribed Verso, upper center (pencil): "BAM1983013 WO1947/27A"
Verso, upper right corner (pancil): "6"
Verso, upper right (pencil): "Micha Bar-Am"
Verso, center center (black ink): "Libano, Tiro."
Verso, center center (black ink): "Atentado contra el Cuartel General de las tropas israelis." [translation: "Attack against the Headquarters of the Israeli troops."]
Verso, center center (pencil): "1903 [Untranslated Hebrew]"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): "MBA-LEB-017"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): "2000"
The evacuation of the Sinai by the Israelis, prior to the handing over of the territory to the Egyptians, was met with fierce resistance by the Israeli settlers. The army removed protestors before the settlements and army camps could be dismantled. The region was being returned in accordance with the Israel/Egypt peace agreements. An Israeli army camp in the process of being dismantled, soldiers take down an aerial in an "Iwo Jima" like pose
The evacuation of the Sinai by the Israelis, prior to the handing over of the territory to the Egyptians, was met with fierce resistance by the Israeli settlers. The army removed protestors before the settlements and army camps could be dismantled. The region was being returned in accordance with the Israel/Egypt peace agreements. An Israeli army camp in the process of being dismantled, soldiers take down an aerial in an "Iwo Jima" like pose
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1982
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.22
Yom Kippur War: Israeli tank unit commander who lost his tank in battle, Golan Heights, Syria
Yom Kippur War: Israeli tank unit commander who lost his tank in battle, Golan Heights, Syria
Micha Bar-Am
Date: October 1973
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.14
Israeli soldier looking for mines in what used to be the former defense line, Sinai
Israeli soldier looking for mines in what used to be the former defense line, Sinai
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1975
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.23
Wheat for India's Millions: Indian longshoremen labor long hours with tin scoops to fill burlap bags with wheat on the docks of Bombay. Modern vessels have sped the grain halfway around the world, but at the docks the 20th century slips back to the 18th as dockworkers load wheat bags on turbaned heads and cattle drawn lorries for the trip inland, India
Wheat for India's Millions: Indian longshoremen labor long hours with tin scoops to fill burlap bags with wheat on the docks of Bombay. Modern vessels have sped the grain halfway around the world, but at the docks the 20th century slips back to the 18th as dockworkers load wheat bags on turbaned heads and cattle drawn lorries for the trip inland, India
Horst Faas
Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.196
In the Children's Ward of a Canadian Mission Hospital from the "Chinese Album"
In the Children's Ward of a Canadian Mission Hospital from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944 (published 1945)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.110
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Old Spanish mission church at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
Arthur Rothstein
Date: April 1936 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.58
I spent $100 on the plane kit and 50 hours assembling it. My goal is not to crash it in the first ten minutes. Mission Peak, Fremont, California, from the series "Leisure"
I spent $100 on the plane kit and 50 hours assembling it. My goal is not to crash it in the first ten minutes. Mission Peak, Fremont, California, from the series "Leisure"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.72
A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the 'Heathens' of America, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the 'Heathens' of America, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 30, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.162
Untitled [church, mission, dwellings, Tobago]
Untitled [church, mission, dwellings, Tobago]
Date: c. 1830
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.23
Untitled [harbor, church or mission and town on hills]
Untitled [harbor, church or mission and town on hills]
Date: date unknown
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.28