The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, L submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take part certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, Iran

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© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, L submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take part certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, Iran
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Artist/Maker (Iranian, 1944 – 2018)
DateFebruary 1978
MediumVintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (24.1 × 16.5 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.4
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Markings Verso, top middle (company stamp): "gamma 11, rue des Petites-Ecuries (rest of stamp covered up by the typewritten text"

Verso, middle, (typewritten):
"12817 - IRAN, Photo d'archives, FEVRIER 1978

La marine iranienne: 22,000 hommes, trois destroyers, quatre fregates, quatre corvettes, cinq patrouilleurs, cinq dragueurs, deux navires de debarquement, quatorze hovercrafts, un sousmarin.

Faute de pieces detachees, la marine depecerait certains navires pour entretenir les autres, selon l'attache militaire americain a Teheran.

The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 Hovercraft, 1 submarine.

Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take aprt certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attache in Tehran.

Photo ABBAS - GAMMA (111521)

Le "BABR""
Inscribed Bottom left corner, sideways (pencil): "JA-509"
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. A hovercraft doing a landing exercise at Kark.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.12
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Portrait of the Palang's crew.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.11
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Bandar Abbas provisions the Palang on the high seas.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.13
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Iran's Airforce consists of 340 planes and 100,000 men. According to the last report of the U.S. military attache in Tehran, it too is in operational for lack of spare parts and maintenance, Iran.
Abbas Attar
Date: November 1977
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.5
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Iran's Airforce consists of 340 planes and 100,000 men. According to the last report of the U.S. military attache in Tehran, it too is inoperational for lack of spare parts and maintenance, Iran.
Abbas Attar
Date: November 1977
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.6
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Iran's Airforce consists of 340 planes and 100,000 men. According to the last report of the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, it too is inoperational for lack of spare parts and maintenance. Cobra helicopters at the Isfahan base. There are no more American technicians to maintain them in good condition.
Abbas Attar
Date: November, 1977
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.8
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
Date: 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.226
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Eugène Isabey
Date: 1833
Medium: Lithograph on chine appliqué
Object number: 1993.3
Jerusalem Alley, A Symbolic Warsaw Street: when Soviet and Polish troops met in Warsaw on January 17, 1945, it was in Jerusalem Alley that they met. At that time, Warsaw was 95% destroyed and this street, like the rest, was like a cemetery in the city of the dead. But today, 15 years later, the scene has changed considerably. There are still a few ruins to be seen, true, but for the most part, the street has been entirely rebuilt. Most of the older buildings are in the grimly-blunt Soviet-style of architecture; but in more recent structures, even this changed. And since the October 1956 revolution, a new wind of dignity and freedom has blown down the street. It is no longer an eastern city, nor is it entirely a western one. But one thing is certain, it is Polish. Pictured: a shoe store window draws a big crowd in goods hungry Warsaw.
Jerusalem Alley, A Symbolic Warsaw Street: when Soviet and Polish troops met in Warsaw on January 17, 1945, it was in Jerusalem Alley that they met. At that time, Warsaw was 95% destroyed and this street, like the rest, was like a cemetery in the city of the dead. But today, 15 years later, the scene has changed considerably. There are still a few ruins to be seen, true, but for the most part, the street has been entirely rebuilt. Most of the older buildings are in the grimly-blunt Soviet-style of architecture; but in more recent structures, even this changed. And since the October 1956 revolution, a new wind of dignity and freedom has blown down the street. It is no longer an eastern city, nor is it entirely a western one. But one thing is certain, it is Polish. Pictured: a shoe store window draws a big crowd in goods hungry Warsaw.
Dr. Claude Jacoby
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.109
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian army has 100,000 men, but its tanks seem in a state of abandon according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.10
© Matthew Pillsbury.
Gare Du Nord, Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 5:54-5:59pm
Matthew Pillsbury
Date: 2008
Medium: Archival pigment print
Object number: 2025.30.142
Ecclesiastes II:5, from the series "Etchings from Ecclesiastes"
Ecclesiastes II:5, from the series "Etchings from Ecclesiastes"
William Majors
Date: 1965
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2003.15.3