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DimensionsSheet: 8 15/16 x 7 1/8 in. (22.7 x 18.1 cm)
Image: 8 1/16 x 6 3/4 in. (20.5 x 17.1 cm)
Accession Number 2024.161
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsEH-KOR-164.2 (verso u,l graphite) $2,000 (verso u,l graphite) 18 805-45 (verso l,c graphite)
MarksREF. DEPT. 3- 2'51- N.E.A. (verso l,c blue stamped ink) "ACME TELEPHOTO" THIS PICTURE IS SOLD TO YOU FOR YOUR PUBLICATION ONLY AND MUST NOT BE LOANED, SYNDICATED OR USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM US. ASME NEWSPICTURES, CHICAGO BUREAU TRIBUNE TOWER, CHICAGO, IL (verso c black stamped ink)
South Korea: Lt. William Pate, Sedalia, Missouri, talks over radio at advanced communication point near the battlefront along the Kum River as Pfc John Huret, Wellington, Kentucky, digs a fox hole for their outpost, July 16, 1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Pfc. Ralph Jobelius (left), Iron Mountain, Michigan, and Pfc. Steve Spisak, Cleveland, Ohio, dig in beside their 3.5 rocket launder on the South Korean battlefront, August 6, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
U.S. Army Lt. James Gleason, a bandage over a head wound, talks to fellow soldiers after surviving a heavy Viet Cong ambush near Cheo Reo in the central highlands of Vietnam. Gleason and other Americans were advising a Vietnamese force which was to evacuate a small town near Cheo Reo when the guerrillas attacked the motorized convoy. Four Americans and about 50 Vietnamese soldiers were killed in the attack, June 30, 1965
1965
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
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
Somewhere in Korea: American infantrymen move to new positions along the Kum River as one of the biggest battles of the war shapes up in the vicinity of Taejon, July 19, circa 1950-1952
ca. 1950-1952
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Eighth Army Headquarters: Korea: Performing a feat virtually unparalleled in military history, twelve helicopters airlifted a United States Marine battalion of about 1,000 troops (0ctober 11) to Korea’s east-central front where American tank columns drove deep into Red territory on both sides of “Heartbreak Ridge.” Marines are pictured here alighting from one of the helicopters shortly after landing, October 16, 1951
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Putting the Commission in Business: President Johnson today signs an executive order spelling out the authority of his special Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Flanking him are Governor Otto Kerner, left, of Illinois, the chairman of the group, and Mayor John Lindsay of New York, vice chairman. Behind are some of the commission members. From left: Representative William McCulloch, Republican-Ohio; Senator Fred Harris, Democrat-Oklahoma; Vice President Humphrey; Katherine Graham Peden, Kentucky commerce commissioner; Police Chief Herbert Jenkins of Atlanta, Georgia; and Senator Edward Brooke, Republican-Massachusetts, July 29, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) points to clock in Capitol during a break in his one-man talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. A colleague yielded to give to give Thurmond a short break. He threatened to talk all night, Washington D.C., August 29, 1957
Unknown
1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Chonju, Korea: Pfc. William H. Penland, Frisco, Texas, of 24th Division Task Force Stephens, warms up in battered town of Chongju, November 30, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Protest at the White House: Demonstrators from various anti-Vietnam war groups who are in the capital carry signs, some protesting the probe of their activities by the White House Un-American Activities Committee, as they march along Pennsylvania Avenue today before the White House. Some members of the group earlier in the day were ejected forcibly from a meeting of the committee in Washington DC, August 16, 1966
William J. Smith
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled Hole
Jeanne Dunning
1992
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Black Hole Lamp
Olafur Eliasson
2006