Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.

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Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Date1950
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 8 × 7 in. (20.3 × 17.8 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm) Composition: 9 1/2 × 7 1/8 in. (24.1 × 18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.94
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Markings Recto, bottom (typewritten): "(SE9-AUG.22) UNHAPPY RED-A wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma (APWirephoto) (jdc3044Ostf-md) 1950"
Verso, bottom right corner, sticker: "rar 1069"
Inscribed Verso, top middle (blue pen): "War Korea"
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
Children leaning out window towards old woman, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Children leaning out window towards old woman, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
René Burri
Date: c. 1966
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.38
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.152
Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 9, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.250
View from a Gold Street rooftop looking east toward the rear of Fulton Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View from a Gold Street rooftop looking east toward the rear of Fulton Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.58
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Unknown artist, American
Date: March 21, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.253
Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Object number: 2025.30.93
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.95
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
Michel Philippot
Date: August 5,1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.122
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Date: c. 1945
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.96
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
1977 Houston, Texas
Garry Winogrand
Date: 1977, published 1982
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.29.14