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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist
DateOctober 17, 1972
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 6 5/16 × 10 13/16 in. (16 × 27.4 cm)
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 in. (16.9 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.183
Not on view
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Markings
Verso, right edge (stamp, purple ink): [sideways, on top of newspaper clipping] “TUE OCT 1 7 1972 LAT2”
Verso, right edge (newspaper clipping): [with partial image, attached sideways] “-AP Wirephoto / PREVENTATIVE DETENTION – Cam- / bodians suspected of working with / the North Vietamese or pro-Siha- / nouk 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. Governemnt / forces are trying to retake the road from the communists who hold it.”
Verso, right edge (newspaper clipping): [with partial image, attached sideways] “-AP Wirephoto / PREVENTATIVE DETENTION – Cam- / bodians suspected of working with / the North Vietamese or pro-Siha- / nouk 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. Governemnt / forces are trying to retake the road from the communists who hold it.”
Inscribed
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): [sideways] "ANON-VNM-134 / 1200”
Verso, center right (blue ink): [sideways] “(Vietnam – War -- Prisoners)”
Verso, center right (blue ink): [sideways] “(Vietnam – War -- Prisoners)”
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