In Cambodia today, at the area of Angkor, miles of temples, statues and other works of antiquity are being uncovered from their jungle bed and opened up for tourist and scholarly interest. Some 600 different buildings, most temples of one sort or the other, show a skill in development that matched that of the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways and other water projects were but some creations about the greatest works: the temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle cover in the Royal Palace grounds of Angkor Thom

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In Cambodia today, at the area of Angkor, miles of temples, statues and other works of antiquity are being uncovered from their jungle bed and opened up for tourist and scholarly interest. Some 600 different buildings, most temples of one sort or the other, show a skill in development that matched that of the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways and other water projects were but some creations about the greatest works: the temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle cover in the Royal Palace grounds of Angkor Thom
In Cambodia today, at the area of Angkor, miles of temples, statues and other works of antiquity are being uncovered from their jungle bed and opened up for tourist and scholarly interest. Some 600 different buildings, most temples of one sort or the other, show a skill in development that matched that of the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways and other water projects were but some creations about the greatest works: the temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle cover in the Royal Palace grounds of Angkor Thom
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
Date1967
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.6 × 25.7 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.133
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center (sticker): "[RETURN/ TO/ LIBRARY]"
Verso, center (purple stamp): "[FILED DEC 18 1967]"



Inscribed Verso, center: "In Cambodia today, at the area/ of Angkor, miles of temples, statues/ and other works of antiquity are being/ uncovered from their jungle bed and/ opened up for tourist and scholarly in-/ terest. Some 600 different buildings, most/ temples of one sort or the other, show a/ skill in development that matched that of/ the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways/ and other water projects were but some/ creations about the greatest works: the/ temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah/ Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle/ cover in the Royal Palace grounds of/ Angkor Thom. (AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO)"
Verso, bottom left corner: "900 HF-VNM-170"
Verso, center: "(Cambodia) - Temples + Ruins"
Searching for the Viet Cong: with helicopter airborne in a clearing, some US paratroopers crouch in grass as others head for the jungles in search of the Viet Cong during Operation Junction City. This assault by the 173rd Airborne Brigade took place last week some 65 miles northwest of Saigon
Searching for the Viet Cong: with helicopter airborne in a clearing, some US paratroopers crouch in grass as others head for the jungles in search of the Viet Cong during Operation Junction City. This assault by the 173rd Airborne Brigade took place last week some 65 miles northwest of Saigon
Horst Faas
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.130
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.20
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.91
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Unknown artist
Date: August 20, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.292
South Vietnamese soldiers ride elephants across a river in the Ba Don area, about 20 miles from the Cambodian border, during a patrol in search of Viet Cong guerrillas in June 1964. In some conditions, the Hannibal-like transportation is more suited to jungle warfare than more modern vehicles
South Vietnamese soldiers ride elephants across a river in the Ba Don area, about 20 miles from the Cambodian border, during a patrol in search of Viet Cong guerrillas in June 1964. In some conditions, the Hannibal-like transportation is more suited to jungle warfare than more modern vehicles
Horst Faas
Date: June 27, 1964
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.201
Image Not Available for Temple of Medînet Hâbû (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III)
Temple of Medînet Hâbû (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III)
Antonio Beato
Date: c. 1860-1882
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: 1990.4.1
Image Not Available for Temple
Temple
Tadashi Sato
Date: 1957
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1962.7
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Model of the surviving columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux
Unknown artist
Date: likely late 19th century
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1943.195
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Model of the surviving corner of Temple of Vespasian
Unknown artist
Date: likely late 19th century
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1943.191
Image Not Available for Veduta del Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiea di S. Urbano, distante du miglia da Roma fuori della Porta di S. Sebastiano (View of the Temple of Bacchus, now the church of Saint Urbano, two miles distant from Rome, beyond the Porta Saint Sebastiano), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Veduta del Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiea di S. Urbano, distante du miglia da Roma fuori della Porta di S. Sebastiano (View of the Temple of Bacchus, now the church of Saint Urbano, two miles distant from Rome, beyond the Porta Saint Sebastiano), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: c. 1758
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2010.4.2
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Model of the surviving columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux
Unknown artist
Date: likely late 19th century
Medium: Soapstone
Object number: 1943.194a-b