US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking

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US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateFebruary 20, 1972
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 6 × 9 3/8 in. (15.2 × 23.8 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.194
Not on view
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Markings Verso, upper center (stamp, red ink): [upside-down] "FEB 2 2 1972"
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "HF-CH-13 / 1800"
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
They cut down our tree forts to put in some new houses. We want our trees back. They paid us five dollars to keep people back while they cut up the trees, but we're not going to keep anybody out.
They cut down our tree forts to put in some new houses. We want our trees back. They paid us five dollars to keep people back while they cut up the trees, but we're not going to keep anybody out.
Bill Owens
Date: 1972
Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed later
Object number: 2023.12.67
Photo by John Bentham.
Travailleurs couronnant la brêche du bastion 7 (Laborers Surmounting the Breach in Bastion 7), from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the Expedition to and Siege of Rome)
Auguste Raffet
Date: 1850-60
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.16
Homicide in a food store. The clerk was shot dead for the few dollars in the till, from the series "Police Work"
Homicide in a food store. The clerk was shot dead for the few dollars in the till, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.13
Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Horst Faas
Date: August 14, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.195
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Starstruck: Mao and Voroshilov, China
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: 1957, printed 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.23
Pigeonnet, je suis innonde, et je souscris en ma faveur.....hatons-nous de me porter les premiers secours. (Pigeonnet, I am overwhelmed, and I am subscribing in my favor.....let us speed up to bring me help.)
Pigeonnet, je suis innonde, et je souscris en ma faveur.....hatons-nous de me porter les premiers secours. (Pigeonnet, I am overwhelmed, and I am subscribing in my favor.....let us speed up to bring me help.)
Paul Gavarni
Date: 1855
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1988.13
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Date: July 15, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.274
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
The “shooting gallery” raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.39
© Walter Iooss. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton…
Martina Navratilova, US Open, Flushing Meadows, NY
Walter Iooss
Date: September 1981
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.23.10
© Walter Iooss. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton…
Chris Evert, US Open, Flushing Meadows, NY
Walter Iooss
Date: September 1981
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.23.4
© Walter Iooss. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton…
Pam Shriver, US Open, Flushing Meadows, NY
Walter Iooss
Date: September 1978
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.23.11