A South Vietnamese militiaman is framed in a coil of razor wire, similar to barbed wire, at an outpost near Cu Chui in the Saigon region. Military patrols have continued in the post cease-fire days.

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A South Vietnamese militiaman is framed in a coil of razor wire, similar to barbed wire, at an outpost near Cu Chui in the Saigon region. Military patrols have continued in the post cease-fire days.
A South Vietnamese militiaman is framed in a coil of razor wire, similar to barbed wire, at an outpost near Cu Chui in the Saigon region. Military patrols have continued in the post cease-fire days.
Artist/Maker
DateJuly 1973
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 8 5/8 in. (20.3 × 21.9 cm) Image: 7 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (18.4 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.245
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Markings Verso, center right and lower right (two red ink stamps): "JUL 10 1973"
Verso, lower center (pasted newspaper clipping): "-AP WIREPHOTO / A SOUTH Vietnamese militiaman is framed / in a coil of razor wire, similar to barbed / wire, at an outpost near Cu Chi in the Saigon / region. Military patrols have continued in / the post cease-fire days. / a"
Inscribed Verso, bottom left, sideways (pencil): "ANON-VNM-79"
Verso, upper center, encircled (blue ink): "4 3/4"
Verso, center (black crayon): "Indochina / 3 cols / w/ wire"
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk 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. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk 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. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Unknown artist
Date: October 17, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.183
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
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
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
From Paddock to Post, Hippodrome Saint-Cloud, from the series "Racing Days"
From Paddock to Post, Hippodrome Saint-Cloud, from the series "Racing Days"
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1994
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.23
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have to have personality to deal with the public.
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have to have personality to deal with the public.
Bill Owens
Date: 1976, printed 1999
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.131
Burden Of War: Carrying youngsters nearly their own size, Laotian youths trudge barefooted down a dusty jungle road while fleeing the battle zone in the Plain of Jars. They were among refugees who arrived at the outpost of Borikhane in central Laos after walking more than 75 miles and evacuating their homes before the onslaught of invading Communist Pathet Lao troops, Laos.
Burden Of War: Carrying youngsters nearly their own size, Laotian youths trudge barefooted down a dusty jungle road while fleeing the battle zone in the Plain of Jars. They were among refugees who arrived at the outpost of Borikhane in central Laos after walking more than 75 miles and evacuating their homes before the onslaught of invading Communist Pathet Lao troops, Laos.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 1964
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Object number: 2024.21.244
Saint Lucia, View taken from Morne Fortuné of Government House, Town of Castries, The Three Military Outposts viz, The Tapion, Vigia, And Pigion Island, With Martinique In The Distance
Saint Lucia, View taken from Morne Fortuné of Government House, Town of Castries, The Three Military Outposts viz, The Tapion, Vigia, And Pigion Island, With Martinique In The Distance
Charles Edward Oldershaw
Date: published April 12, 1854
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1971.53
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Horst Faas
Date: March 8, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.199
'Bill Passed Providing Two New Military Posts' by the Generous Democratic House, from "Harper's Weekly"
'Bill Passed Providing Two New Military Posts' by the Generous Democratic House, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 5, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.333