Paris Racing Stables Are Army Quarters: Paris' famous racing stables or Maison-Laritte have be requisitioned by the military authorities and are now quarters for the Army. The premises which used to house famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much possible. / Soldiers assembling for the roll call in front of the stables.

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Paris Racing Stables Are Army Quarters: Paris' famous racing stables or Maison-Laritte have be requisitioned by the military authorities and are now quarters for the Army. The premises which used to house famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much possible. / Soldiers assembling for the roll call in front of the stables.
Paris Racing Stables Are Army Quarters: Paris' famous racing stables or Maison-Laritte have be requisitioned by the military authorities and are now quarters for the Army. The premises which used to house famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much possible. / Soldiers assembling for the roll call in front of the stables.
Date1939
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/8 × 5 5/8 in. (15.6 × 14.4 cm) Image: 6 1/8 × 5 5/8 in. (15.6 × 14.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.229
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Markings Verso, upper middle (green ink stamp): "Westport Public Library Westport, Conn."
Verso, middle left (green adhesive label): "PIX PUBLISHING INC. 250 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE ELDORADO 5-4021"
Verso, middle right (black 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 (adhesive typewritten paper): "SCHA/ PARIS RACING STABLES ARE ARMY QUARTERS / Paris' famous racing stables of Maison-Lafitte have been... requisitioned by the military authorities and are now us... quarters for the Army. The premises which used to be hous... famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied... soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much as..."
Verso, bottom middle (adhesive typewritten paper): "7. Soldiers assembling for the roll call in front of the stables."
Verso, bottom middle (typewritten paper, torn and covered): "...dont les ecuries furent..."
Inscribed Verso, top left (pencil): "RS-380 1250"
Verso, upper left (black ink pen): "No de censeue 18090"
Verso, upper middle right (pencil): "WWII-France"
Verso, middle (pencil): "7", circled
Paris Racing Stables Are Army Quarters: Paris' famous racing stables or Maison-Laritte have be requisitioned by the military authorities and are now quarters for the Army. The premises which used to house famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much possible. / The soldiers have to keep their boxes in ship-shape order. Photo shows inspection by an officer in charge of the stable quarters.
Paris Racing Stables Are Army Quarters: Paris' famous racing stables or Maison-Laritte have be requisitioned by the military authorities and are now quarters for the Army. The premises which used to house famous thoroughbreds of the racetracks are now occupied soldiers who try to make themselves at home as much possible. / The soldiers have to keep their boxes in ship-shape order. Photo shows inspection by an officer in charge of the stable quarters.
Date: 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.228
The evacuation of the Sinai by the Israelis, prior to the handing over of the territory to the Egyptians, was met with fierce resistance by the Israeli settlers. The army removed protestors before the settlements and army camps could be dismantled. The region was being returned in accordance with the Israel/Egypt peace agreements. An Israeli army camp in the process of being dismantled, soldiers take down an aerial in an "Iwo Jima" like pose
The evacuation of the Sinai by the Israelis, prior to the handing over of the territory to the Egyptians, was met with fierce resistance by the Israeli settlers. The army removed protestors before the settlements and army camps could be dismantled. The region was being returned in accordance with the Israel/Egypt peace agreements. An Israeli army camp in the process of being dismantled, soldiers take down an aerial in an "Iwo Jima" like pose
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1982
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.22
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
While awaiting the departure of the shah for "holidays", Iran knows a situation of double power: Ayatollah Khomeini has posed, since Paris, as political chief and has constituted a "council of the Islamic revolution ". In the street, "C'est la fete": The demonstrators fraternized with the soldiers (who sometimes displayed portraits of Khomeini on their cars), Tehran, Iran
Abbas Attar
Date: January 14, 1979
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.3
Untitled (Polish Army soldiers exiting a house), Poland
Untitled (Polish Army soldiers exiting a house), Poland
René Zuber
Date: 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.119
Untitled (Polish Army soldiers crouching with guns), Poland
Untitled (Polish Army soldiers crouching with guns), Poland
René Zuber
Date: 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.238
Roundup. Cowboys drive cattle down mountain to winter quarters, near continental divide, Colorado
Roundup. Cowboys drive cattle down mountain to winter quarters, near continental divide, Colorado
Lou Stoumen
Date: c. 1952
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.139
Street scene in Tangier. The native quarters of the city, known as Medina, is very old and characterized by narrow streets and low, two-story houses. Because of the heat, houses have only few, small windows, Morocco.
Street scene in Tangier. The native quarters of the city, known as Medina, is very old and characterized by narrow streets and low, two-story houses. Because of the heat, houses have only few, small windows, Morocco.
Dr. Claude Jacoby
Date: 1955-1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.99
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
Horst Faas
Date: September 9, 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.129
Paris Takes to Dog-Racing: Another Whippet Beauty: The dogs are fed separately because of their tendency to get into fights with each other over food.
Paris Takes to Dog-Racing: Another Whippet Beauty: The dogs are fed separately because of their tendency to get into fights with each other over food.
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.204
Black Army: Under orders from their officer, they fire the canons (recruited Africans for World War II), Ivory Coast (now Burkina Faso)
Black Army: Under orders from their officer, they fire the canons (recruited Africans for World War II), Ivory Coast (now Burkina Faso)
Denise Bellon
Date: December 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.50
A Soldier’s Lot is Not a Happy One
A Soldier’s Lot is Not a Happy One
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 29, 1882
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.283
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so governed is Ouarzazate in the South of French Morocco. / In front of the fortified post, which also houses the Ministry for Native Affairs, the "proconsul-administrator" of the district, Captain Fournier, is seen talking to natives. Note also mounted native soldiers on sentry duty before the fortress, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so governed is Ouarzazate in the South of French Morocco. / In front of the fortified post, which also houses the Ministry for Native Affairs, the "proconsul-administrator" of the district, Captain Fournier, is seen talking to natives. Note also mounted native soldiers on sentry duty before the fortress, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.223