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DimensionsSheet: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.5 x 25.2 cm)
Image: 3 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (9.8 x 24 cm)
Accession Number 2024.165
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsGSM-KOR-009 (verso l,l graphite) $1,200 (verso l,l graphite) KOREAN WAR KOREAN PRISONERS OF WAR EXCHANGE APRiL — 1953 (verso u,r ink)
MarksRETURN TO CHRONICLE MORGUE (verso l,c red stamped ink)
Operation Prisoner Exchange: This is the receiving area at Panmunjom, Korea, where United Nations POWs are being released by the Communists. At left, the Communist ambulances unload the United Nations soldiers and at right, the American ambulances which take them on to Freedom Village, near Munsan, April 22, 1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Marines Get Ready for POW Release: United States Marines string barbed wire near Freedom Gate bridge in Korea to help channelize an estimated 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners of war if they are released as scheduled at 12:01 a.m. January 12. Officers of the United States Eighth Army said they are prepared for “any eventuality” and can handle a disorganized rush southward by the POWs if it materializes. The Neutral Nations Repatriation commission is trying to achieve agreement with the Communists and the United Nations command on what to do with the prison-weary veterans in the Anti-Red camp, January 8, 1954
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Demolition at Hamhung: High explosives rip through several spans of a railroad bridge outside Hamhung as withdrawal of United Nations forces continued, December 17, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Two looters (left photo) comes out of store with their booty but one of them drops his (right) when spotted by police April 5. Conditions became so disorderly in the nation's capital that President Johnson was forced to call out Federal troops, Washington, April 5, 1968
Unknown
1968
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
Sariwon, Korea: Civilian police guard North Korea Communists captured in the city. The prisoners have their hands tied behind their backs and huddle together for warmth. Just what will become of the prisoners in the event of further withdrawals is not unknown, December 12, 1950
1950
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
White, Negro Pupils Get Instructions: H. B. Sanders, right, gives instructions to members of a 10th grade class at McKinley Technical High School as the new District of Columbia public school term opens today. White and negro pupils are members of the class. heretofore public schools in the nation's capital were segregated. A school official said some 400 Negroes have enrolled in previously all-white McKinley High, one of the city's larger schools, September 13, 1954
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Troops wearing gas masks move along a Washington street in a predominantly Negro area. Some 4,000 Army and National Guardsmen were moved into the nation's capitol following widespread burning and looting, Washington, April 6, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
This North Korean prisoner makes no bones about his joy at being captured with a whole skin. The smiling red was taken by United States Marines near Kimpo airfield north of Seoul, September 22, 1950
1950
Image Not Available for A Big Welcome: A American POW, left, gets a warm welcome form a member of the prisoner recovery team during the release ceremony for 108 POWs at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport, Wednesday. The POWs were in Clark Air Base, Philippines, Thursday, waiting their flights home, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 15, 1973
A Big Welcome: A American POW, left, gets a warm welcome form a member of the prisoner recovery team during the release ceremony for 108 POWs at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport, Wednesday. The POWs were in Clark Air Base, Philippines, Thursday, waiting their flights home, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 15, 1973
1973