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

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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
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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"
US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 20, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.194
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
Horst Faas
Date: December 9, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with retouching
Object number: 2022.15.131
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188
Street view of Chopin Theater and Zgoda Polish Daily Newspaper, corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Division Street, Chicago
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
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.150
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
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
To Arms! To Arms, from "Harper's Weekly"
To Arms! To Arms, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 18, 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.38
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Chinese actors applying make-up, China
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: c. 1957 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.4
Photograph by John Bentham.
A Call to Arms
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: 1941-45 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.10
Dettaglio del muro nel cortile con gli stemm dei podesta (Detail of a wall in a courtyard with podesta coats of arms)
Dettaglio del muro nel cortile con gli stemm dei podesta (Detail of a wall in a courtyard with podesta coats of arms)
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.404
Joyeuse, from the series, The Female Figure, (Standing nude with arms crossed)
Joyeuse, from the series, The Female Figure, (Standing nude with arms crossed)
Karl Struss
Date: 1917
Medium: Gelatin silver print, tipped to mount
Object number: 2021.12.311
Nude in profile leaning forward with arms out
Nude in profile leaning forward with arms out
Karl Struss
Date: 1917
Medium: Gelatin silver on Japanese tissue, tipped to mount
Object number: 2021.12.313