Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan

Skip to main content
Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateAugust 14, 1972
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (19 × 22 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 5/16 in. (20.3 × 26.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.195
Not on view
Collections

Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper center edge (paper label with adhesive): [remnants of a paper label, mostly removed, no text]
Verso, lower left (stamp, red ink): [sideways] "AUG 1 5 1972"
Inscribed Recto, lower left (blue ink): [circle drawn around "Chinese" in typed passage at bottom of image]
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "HF-CH-17 / 2500"
Street view of Chopin Theater and Zgoda Polish Daily Newspaper, corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Division Street, Chicago
Gordon Coster
Date: c. 1930s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.37
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.172
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: c. 1957 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.4
Lust from the series "The Vices"
Heinrich Aldegrever
Date: 1552
Medium: Engraving on paper
Object number: 1983.35