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DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (17.1 x 21 cm)
Accession Number 2025.226
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
On The Way Out: One of several persons ejected from the hearing room is carried bodily by officers today as the probe of anti-Vietnam war activities by the House-Un-American Activities Committee erupted with turmoil as loud challenges were shouted at the members of the committee. At least eight persons were carried or dragged from the room, Washington DC, August 16, 1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1949
Image Not Available for Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The real Kojak at work, Detective Sgt., Gerald McQueen (checkered trousers) looking through photos of wanted persons, NYC
Leonard Freed
1975
Image Not Available for Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
...As Demonstrators Marched: Participants in the "March Against Death" place the name cards of United States military killed in Vietnam in the coffins, left, at the foot of the Capitol tonight. The 40-hour procession from Arlington Cemetery is part of Vietnam Moratorium activity in Washington, November 13, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
Image Not Available for Black Students Testify at Senate Hearing: Testifying during a continuing discussion on segregation five black students gave testimony Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity in Washington. From left are: Lionel McIntyre, New Orleans; Tyrone Thomas, Mobile, Alabama; Arthur Mae Cohen, Frogmore, South Carolina; Anita Kleinpeter, Lake Providence, Louisiana; Lawander Lovette, Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and teacher Ruby Martin, June 19, 1970
Black Students Testify at Senate Hearing: Testifying during a continuing discussion on segregation five black students gave testimony Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity in Washington. From left are: Lionel McIntyre, New Orleans; Tyrone Thomas, Mobile, Alabama; Arthur Mae Cohen, Frogmore, South Carolina; Anita Kleinpeter, Lake Providence, Louisiana; Lawander Lovette, Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and teacher Ruby Martin, June 19, 1970
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1970
Image Not Available for Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Christ Carried to the Tomb
Rembrandt van Rijn
ca. 1645
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
And He Carried in His Right Hand from Revelations of St. John
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: An American first aid map treats a wounded United States soldier at front line aid station. The wounded are evacuated by litters carried on jeeps to hospitals in the rear, July 10, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Move In: Washington police march down the center of a street near the Justice Department in Washington as a large symbolic gavel burns. The gavel was carried to the scene by demonstrators, November 15, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce (From a photograph by Brady)
Winslow Homer
March 17, 1860