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.)

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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.)
Date1935-1939
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 8 5/8 × 8 1/4 in. (22 × 21 cm) Image: 8 5/8 × 8 1/4 in. (22 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.226
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Markings Verso, upper left (green ink stamp): "Westport Public Library Westport, Conn."
Verso, upper middle (typewritten paper torn off)
Verso, lower middle (purple ink stamp): "PHOTO BY: PIX PUBLISHING INC, 250 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK CITY TEL. ELDORADO 5-4021 / PLEASE CREDIT PHOTO SCHALL-PIX / THIS PICTURE IS SOLD TO YOU FOR YOUR PUBLICATION ONLY AND MUST NOT BE LOANED, SYNDICATED OR USED FOR AD-VERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM US."
Verso, lower middle (orange ink stamp): "OA 112"
Inscribed Verso, top left (pencil): "RS-358 2200"
Verso, upper middle right (pencil): "30 / 1109"
Verso, middle (red pencil): "7", circled
Verso, lower middle (pencil): "U.S. NAVY"
© 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, 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
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.4
© 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. 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
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
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
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
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The atmosphere around the U.S. Embassy at Tehran where students have been guarding 100 hostages, including 60 Americans, since November 4. Here students are evacuating garbage from the Embassy in a U.S. Flag, Tehran, Iran
Abbas Attar
Date: November 12th, 1979
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.1
Photo by John Bentham.
U.S. Post Office Tailoring Company
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.74
Photograph by John Bentham.
U.S. soldiers in Vienna, Austria
Arthur Rothstein
Date: 1947, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.46
© Peter Turnley. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
Funeral for a U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq, South Carolina
Peter Turnley
Date: 2004
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.23.17
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.134