Human by-products of War: American GI and a nun carry orphans to transport plane at Pleiku. Children were evacuated to Saigon as Communist drive threatened Pleiku

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Human by-products of War: American GI and a nun carry orphans to transport plane at Pleiku. Children were evacuated to Saigon as Communist drive threatened Pleiku
Human by-products of War: American GI and a nun carry orphans to transport plane at Pleiku. Children were evacuated to Saigon as Communist drive threatened Pleiku
Artist/Maker
DateMay, 1972
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (23.5 × 19.1 cm) Image: 9 × 7 1/8 in. (22.9 × 18.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.289
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center: "Human by-products / of war...as a / nun and an / American GI / lend a helping hand / as they carry / Vietnamese orphans / to a transport plane / at Pleiku that / will evacuate the / children to Saigon. / Threatened by the / current North / Vietnamese offensive, / youngsters from the / Pleiku orphanage / were evacuated south / AP Photo" (newspaper pasted)
Verso, center: "[MAY 1972]"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner: "ANON-VNM-63.2 1200"
Verso, center: "5 1/4/ 12.00 (illegible)"