Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter

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Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateMarch 8, 1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 8 9/16 in. (18.4 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 8 7/8 in. (20.7 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.199
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Markings Verso, center right (stamp, red ink): [diagonal] “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. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for / advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. / The following credit must be printed under / such reproduction of this picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / and U. S. PATENT OFFICE”
Verso, center left (newspaper clipping): [sideways] "Ina squatter area of Bombay, an Indian woman rests in her "home," while / a young girl plays near by. Thousands of other families live in shocking / poverty on the sidewalks and streets of Bombay. Many have come from / drought stricken rural areas to cities where they hoped to find food, shel- / ter and jobs. / -AP Photos by Horst Fass"
Verso, center left (stamp, purple ink): [sideways and ontop of newspaper clipping] "SU MAR 20 1966"
Inscribed Recto, upper right margin (red marker): [very faded and mostly illegible] "... India..."
Verso, center left (pencil): [sideways] "India"
Verso, center left edge (black ink): [sideways] "(India - People) / -Women"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): [sideways] "HF-IND-45.2 2500"
Louise's 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Louise's 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.75
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
Photography by David Revette.
Women’s Lodging Room in Eldridge Street Police Station,
Jacob Riis
Date: c. 1890, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.99
We're home three weekends a year. Our camper is our real home. Being a member of the National Campers and Hikers Association gives our family the opportunity and the enjoyment of getting out of town every weekend...and to camp with other families.
We're home three weekends a year. Our camper is our real home. Being a member of the National Campers and Hikers Association gives our family the opportunity and the enjoyment of getting out of town every weekend...and to camp with other families.
Bill Owens
Date: 1971, printed 1998
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.129
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Horst Faas
Date: 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.127
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Paul Almasy
Date: 1960-1969
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.168
Image Not Available for N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published August 31, 1859
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1986.10
UN Secretary General U Thant, Women Strike for Peace receiving United Nations honor on Women Strike for Peace 10th anniversary
UN Secretary General U Thant, Women Strike for Peace receiving United Nations honor on Women Strike for Peace 10th anniversary
Dorothy Marder
Date: December 18, 1971
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.135
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Indian Embroidery Kutsch
Date: 19th century
Medium: Embroidered wool on linen
Object number: S2024.5.6
Image Not Available for Dübs & Co. No. 3776 Locomotive, built for East Indian Railway
Dübs & Co. No. 3776 Locomotive, built for East Indian Railway
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1898
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: 1994.114
Xochimilcon Indian in an Aztec village, Mexcio
Xochimilcon Indian in an Aztec village, Mexcio
Pierre Verger
Date: 1939-1946
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.190
Photo by John Bentham.
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, plate 5 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.109