The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Portrait of the Palang's crew.

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© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Portrait of the Palang's crew.
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Artist/Maker (Iranian, 1944 – 2018)
DateFebruary 1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (16.5 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.11
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Markings Verso, top middle, (stamp): "gamma, 11, rue des Petities - Ecuries, 75010 PARIS (France) - 770.64.46"

Verso, middle (typewriter): "12817 - IRAN, Photo d'archives, FEVRIER 1978

La marine iranienne: 22,000 hommes, trois destroyers, quatre fregates, quatre corvettes, cinq patrouillers, cinq draguers, deux navires de debarquement, quatorze hovercrafts, un sousmarin.
Faute de pieces detachees, la marine depecerait certains navires pour entretenir les autres, selon l'attache militaire americain a Teheran.

The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 Hovercraft, 1 submarine.
Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take aprt certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attache in Tehran.

Photo ABBAS - GAMMA (111521)

L'equipage du PALANG
The PALANG's crew."
Inscribed Verso, bottom left, sideways (pencil): "JA-604"

Verso, bottom right (pencil): "2025.30.11"
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Bandar Abbas provisions the Palang on the high seas.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.13
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. A hovercraft doing a landing exercise at Kark.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.12
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, L submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take part certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, Iran
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.4
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
Date: 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.226
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Eugène Isabey
Date: 1833
Medium: Lithograph on chine appliqué
Object number: 1993.3
© Matthew Pillsbury.
Gare Du Nord, Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 5:54-5:59pm
Matthew Pillsbury
Date: 2008
Medium: Archival pigment print
Object number: 2025.30.142
#4 Plan for Laidlaw Garden
#4 Plan for Laidlaw Garden
William C. Palmer
Date: March 1968
Medium: Colored pencil, ink
Object number: WCP.616.6
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.95
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Horst Faas
Date: 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.127
© Rhona Bitner, ADAGP, Artists Rights Society, New York. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer W…
4 ½.X+.MC, 2022, from the "Pointe" project, 2020–ongoing
Rhona Bitner
Date: 2022
Medium: Archival pigment print
Object number: 2024.7.1
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The atmosphere around the U.S. Embassy at Tehran where students have been guarding 100 hostages, including 60 Americans, since November 4. Here students are evacuating garbage from the Embassy in a U.S. Flag, Tehran, Iran
Abbas Attar
Date: November 12th, 1979
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.1
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times. b. Hosta japonica (Savannah-wood), young shoot enlarged 4 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times.
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times. b. Hosta japonica (Savannah-wood), young shoot enlarged 4 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 12 times.
Karl Blossfeldt
Date: 1929
Medium: Rotogravure
Object number: 2009.2.3