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.

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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.
Date1950
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 5 5/8 in. (16.5 × 14.2 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 6 in. (18 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.95
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Markings Verso, top left corner (black ink stamp): "Refugees - General (Korea) (SX)"
Verso, middle (blue ink stamp): "From Librarian Seattle Post-Intelligence"
Verso, middle (blue ink stamp): "Dec 12 1950"
Verso, middle (blue ink stamp): "NOTICE-" faded
Verso, bottom half, affixed to the page, black ink (typewritten): "ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM SEATTLE / Caution: USE CREDIT / WAR-WEARY REFUGEE / Bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice has swept over Pyongyang, an elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River Pridge as she flees south from the North Korean capital Dec. 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds / jdc 12/9/50 stf-md / se"
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
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.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.94
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
Unknown artist
Date: January 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.189
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
Date: August, 1965
Medium: United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.291
Let Us Think Twice before we Let Loose the Dogs of War, from "Harper's Weekly"
Let Us Think Twice before we Let Loose the Dogs of War, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 13, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.226
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
Annual Race: the Vietnamese war has heated up with the Communist offensive, but an annual bicycle race goes on. Bicyclists pedal through Long Binh, 20 miles north of Saigon during the Route 1 race
Annual Race: the Vietnamese war has heated up with the Communist offensive, but an annual bicycle race goes on. Bicyclists pedal through Long Binh, 20 miles north of Saigon during the Route 1 race
Horst Faas
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.200
Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Unknown artist
Date: August 22, 1959
Medium: Vintage newswire
Object number: 2023.12.187
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
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Dmitri Baltermants
Date: 1942 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.11
December 3, 2000
December 3, 2000
Mark Citret
Date: 2000
Medium: Gelatin silver print on vellum
Object number: 2018.12.13
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
Erechtheion, North door, from the North
Clarence Kennedy
Date: 1928
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.5.3
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Unknown artist
Date: October 17, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.183