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

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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, 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 / Magnum Photos.
Artist/Maker (Iranian, 1944 – 2018)
DateFebruary 1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (16.3 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.12
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Markings Verso, bottom, middle, upsidedown (stamp): "gamma, 11, rue des Petites - Ecuries, 75010 PARIS (France) 770.64.46

Verso, middle, (typewriter): "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)

Hovercraft en exercice de debarquement a Kark.
A Hovercraft doing a landing exercise at KARK.
Inscribed Verso, top, left, upside down (pencil): "2025.30.12"

Verso, top, right (pencil): "JA-605"
© 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.
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
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.4
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
Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Date: 19th century
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.236
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
Landing of Columbus
Landing of Columbus
Nathanial Currier
Date: mid 19th century
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.47
#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
(4) Revelation
(4) Revelation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.25