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

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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
Artist/Maker
DateMay 29, 1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 9 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.7 × 16.9 cm) Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 in. (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.184
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Markings Verso, center (stamp, red ink): "RETURN to: / CHRONICLE FILES"
Verso, lower right center (stamp, red ink): [circled with blue ink] "JUN 2 1966"
Inscribed Recto, lower edge (blue ink): "Vietnam - South"
Verso, upper left corner (pencil): "ANON-VNM-183"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "1200"
Verso, upper center (blue ink): "SOUTH VIETNAM"
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Unknown artist
Date: August 20, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.292
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Unknown artist
Date: October 17, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.183
Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Horst Faas
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.198
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Date: October 19, 1967
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto with added pigment
Object number: 2022.15.259
Some 200 civil rights marchers protesting retention of School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis were carted off to jail in police vans and squadrols Friday.
Some 200 civil rights marchers protesting retention of School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis were carted off to jail in police vans and squadrols Friday.
Date: June 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.286
Prisoners, some Italian but mostly German, gathered on higher land, awaiting transport to prison camp, Egypt
Prisoners, some Italian but mostly German, gathered on higher land, awaiting transport to prison camp, Egypt
George Rodger
Date: c. 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.207
Viet Cong The Burning Issue: American F100 jet drops two canisters of napalm toward a Viet Cong machine gun position on the bank of the Rach Beng river, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, as a soldier of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, who had been landed by helicopter wades through the tall grass in foreground. The Rach Beng here forms the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia. The infantrymen were landed some 400 yards from the border and moved in to capture hundreds of tons of Viet Cong supplies
Viet Cong The Burning Issue: American F100 jet drops two canisters of napalm toward a Viet Cong machine gun position on the bank of the Rach Beng river, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, as a soldier of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, who had been landed by helicopter wades through the tall grass in foreground. The Rach Beng here forms the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia. The infantrymen were landed some 400 yards from the border and moved in to capture hundreds of tons of Viet Cong supplies
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.128
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
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.15
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: May 2, 1962
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.262
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.264
Barbed spear tip
Barbed spear tip
Unknown artist
Date: date unknown
Medium: Wood, red and black pigment
Object number: S2023.2.6
Entrance to the Buddhist Temple, Kandy, Ceylon
Entrance to the Buddhist Temple, Kandy, Ceylon
Charles T. Scowen
Date: c. 1880s
Medium: Albumen print from a collodion negative
Object number: 2020.9.214