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DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 x 8 in. (16.8 x 20.3 cm)
Accession Number 2025.181
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Chow Now? And How!: South Korea: Pfc. Andrew T. Jones of Milton, Florida, and Pfc. Ray Scalf (right) of Elizabethon, Tennessee, enjoy hot chow at forward command post in the Yongdong sector. Troops in the field are now eating hot rations in full quantity. Weeks ago the menu wasn’t so complete, August 3, 1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: An American machine gun crew are well prepared for the enemy in the southwest sector of the Korean war zone. Left to right: Pfc. Richard Bowker, Cheyenne, South Dakota; Pfc. Carle Batty, Rock Island, Illinois; and Cpt. George E. Murphy, August, Georgia, August 7, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bob: "Hallo! What's Up Now? Are Your Babies in Here"
Winslow Homer
July, 1881
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (“... the girl [in the photo] is the daughter of the Leipzig Bürgermeister, she’s just committed suicide. The girl... looked like she was asleep ... but the layer of dust on her lips and face, on her perfect row of teeth, dust from streetfighting and explosions, meant that now she was just another surface in the room.”)
Roni Horn
2014-2016
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Relax Before Battle: Pvt. Raymond Williams (left with banjo), Moberly, Missouri, and Pvt. Bob Clinton (with guitar), Bismarck, Missouri, entertain fellow Americans aboard flat car moving men and equipment to Korean front. Listening are fellow 25th Division men PFC Bill Persinger, (lower center), Dille, West Virginia; Cpl. John H. McKinney (right), Logan, West Virginia; and Cpl. Mack C. Cook (foreground), Altoona, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anti-Tank Task: South Korea: Pfc. Billie Harrell (left) of Griffin, Georgia, and Pvt. Morgan Hannan of Columbus, Mississippi, lie behind their “tank antidote,” the 3.5 and 2.7 bazookas, on the Naktong River front. Late reports had yanks on the offensive on three Korean fronts, August 14, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Grim looking supply drivers pictured as they arrived at rear base to load more supplies for front lines. Left to right: Cpl. Johnnie McLeroy, Paducah, Kentucky, and Pfc. Carlton Wright, Herbing, Arkansas, July 18, 1951
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hot Summer
Val Tone
1980
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Hot Springs on Gardiner's Run, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Moran
April 15, 1873
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Summer Hot
Beverly Buchanan
1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Summer Hot
Beverly Buchanan
1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (Man eating with group on street, wearing crown, with woman tending fire for cooking, India or Nepal)
Leon Levinstein
ca. 1977
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
As they pulled him out of the river I could see that his face was gone. He had been in about two weeks
Leonard Freed
1976