Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam

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Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Artist/Maker
DateAugust 22, 1959
MediumVintage newswire
DimensionsImage: 6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in. (17.6 × 22.1 cm) Sheet: 6 15/16 × 9 5/8 in. (17.6 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.187
Not on view

Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper left (stamp, red ink): [upside-down] "Spokesman-Review / NOV 6 1969"
Verso, center (stamp, red ink): [diagonal] "AUG 2 4 1959"
Verso, lower center (label adhesive staining): no text
Verso, lower left (stamp, red ink): "MAR 1 9 1982"
Inscribed Verso, upper center (blue ink): [diagonal] "Viet Nam"
Verso, center (pencil): illegible marks
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "1200 / ANON-VNM-228"
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: c. 1975, printed 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.4