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, February 1978

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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, February 1978
© 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, February 1978
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, February 1978
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, February 1978
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, November 1977
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, November 1977.
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, November 1977
Abbas Attar
Date: November, 1977
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.8
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
© 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, February 1978
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.10
#4 Plan for Laidlaw Garden
#4 Plan for Laidlaw Garden
William C. Palmer
Date: March 1968
Medium: Colored pencil, ink
Object number: WCP.616.6
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times. b. Hosta japonica (Savannah-wood), young shoot enlarged 4 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times.
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times. b. Hosta japonica (Savannah-wood), young shoot enlarged 4 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times.
Karl Blossfeldt
Date: 1929
Medium: Rotogravure
Object number: 2009.2.3
© Rhona Bitner, ADAGP, Artists Rights Society, New York. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer W…
4 ½.X+.MC, 2022, from the "Pointe" project, 2020–ongoing
Rhona Bitner
Date: 2022
Medium: Archival pigment print
Object number: 2024.7.1
(4) Revelation
(4) Revelation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.23