The first Germans taken prisoner in the Western Desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp. Egyptian police hold back the guards gathered to watch their arrival

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The first Germans taken prisoner in the Western Desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp. Egyptian police hold back the guards gathered to watch their arrival
The first Germans taken prisoner in the Western Desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp. Egyptian police hold back the guards gathered to watch their arrival
Artist/Maker (British, 1908 – 1995)
Datec. 1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 7 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (20 × 21 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (19.4 × 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2020.9.209
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Provenance 2020: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Stamp: "Story 20-x / Roll 15 / Frame 1" on verso at upper middle in black ink; "20-x" "15" "1" are in black marker.
Stamp: "Copyright / George Rodger / Magnum Photos" on verso at upper middle in black ink.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed "GR-F-56" on verso at upper left in pencil.
"FCC F 4693" on verso at upper right in pencil.
"20X-15--1" on verso at lower left in pencil.
"the first germans taken prisoner in the western desert arrive at Cairo railway station en route to prison camp Tailushed. Egpytian police hold back the crowds gathered to watch their arrival." on verso at lower middle in pencil.
Prisoners, some Italian but mostly German, gathered on higher land, awaiting transport to prison camp, Egypt
Prisoners, some Italian but mostly German, gathered on higher land, awaiting transport to prison camp, Egypt
George Rodger
Date: c. 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.207
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 25, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.193
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by B…
The last thing I did before leaving for San Francisco after my dad died was watch fireworks explode over the St. Louis arch on the Fourth of July. Two days later I crested a hill on Route 80 and saw the expanse of San Francisco Bay for the first time. It was so beautiful I cried. St. Louis, Missouri, from the series "Leisure"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.93
Police officers searching suspects in back of police station, NYC
Police officers searching suspects in back of police station, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.156
Mummy at Egyptian museum, Cairo
Mummy at Egyptian museum, Cairo
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1977
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.12
Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
Elijah Addresses Muslims: flanked by bodyguards, Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, right, addresses concluding session of convention. Final session was marked by brief violence when guards pummeled and ejected a spectator, Chicago.
Date: March 1, 1965
Medium: Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.268
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.15
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
The neighborhood gathered to watch. Somewhere within the building a man was concealed with a gun
The neighborhood gathered to watch. Somewhere within the building a man was concealed with a gun
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.149
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
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
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a prisoner showing in his wallet the portrait of the former Superintendent O. E. Bishop, Cummins, Arkansas
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a prisoner showing in his wallet the portrait of the former Superintendent O. E. Bishop, Cummins, Arkansas
Jean-Pierre Laffont
Date: February 3, 1968
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.239