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Label TextThis image was taken by a photojournalist working under the employ of the Associated Press, a US news agency founded in 1846 and still in operation. These photographers endeavored to take in-focus, direct, and straightforward illustrations of the war that would clearly communicate important events with the American public. Because the Korean War occurred before the advent of television news, it was the last American war that Americans received almost entirely through photos printed in newspapers and magazines.
Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 510719126
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.7 x 23.2 cm)
Accession Number 2025.192
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
This bridge across the Imjin River, built especially to carry United Nations convoys to Kaesong for the cease fire meetings also serves as a diving board and shelter for a swimming pool MPs in foreground are posted to see that non unauthorized personnel cross the bridge, July 19, 1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Scuffler Led Away: His face twisted with pain, an unidentified man is led away by police from the scene of the threatened race riot at Washington's Anacostia park swimming pool, June 29, 1949. The scuffle started when some 70 black youths appeared at the pool and the whites refused to let them swim. Washington, DC, June 29, 1949
Scuffler Led Away: His face twisted with pain, an unidentified man is led away by police from the scene of the threatened race riot at Washington's Anacostia park swimming pool, June 29, 1949. The scuffle started when some 70 black youths appeared at the pool and the whites refused to let them swim. Washington, DC, June 29, 1949
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
In Geschicht Recht (It Serves Him Right) (Of Courting Misfortune): Folio LV from Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Stultifera Naris (The Ship of Fools, Chapter 45)
attributed to
Albrecht Dürer
1494
Image Not Available for Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Unknown
1955
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Diversarum Nationum Habitus (The Dress of Various Nations)
Alexandres de Fabris
ca. 1594
Image Not Available for The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
Unknown
1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bridge in Snow (Brooklyn Bridge in Winter)
Childe Hassam
ca. 1894
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Union Meetings in the Open Air Outside the Academy of Music, December 19, 1859
Winslow Homer
January 7, 1860
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Die Katz (Katzen in Dachboden) (Cats [Cats in a Ground Shelter])
Gerhard Marcks
1920-1921
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Our singing group will take any opportunity to perform, especially if it’s a captive audience. Flights to Hawaii, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1978, printed later
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I am here to promote the new Concorde service. Air France has already purchased four of these planes and has just established service between Paris and Rio, Caracas and Washington, D.C. This is the greatest and the most beautiful aircraft ever built. It can travel at Mach 2 and it will change the way we think about flying forever. I am proud to represent the future., from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1974-1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
(no title), Flower Girls, Barnes Bridge, The Oysterman, Barnes Common - Calling the Carriages, from "London: A Pilgrimage"
Gustave Doré
July 6, 1872
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Victoria Embankment, Orange Woman, Between Bridges, Lemonade Vendor, and Lavender Girl, from "London: A Pilgrimage"
Gustave Doré
June 8, 1872