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DimensionsOverall: 6 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (16.2 x 23.8 cm)
Accession Number 2024.255
Classificationsphotograph
Prime Minister Menachem Begin talking to a New York Times editor and reporters Abe Rosenthal and Bill Farrell (off camera) in Begin’s office, Jerusalem
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
1983
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) is all smiles as he steps outside of the Senate Gallery mobbed by reporters after winding up his 24-hour, 18-minutes talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. Thurmond bested the record set by Wayne Morse of Oregon in 1953, Washington D.C., August 28, 1957
Unknown
1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Die Flucht Beginnt (The Exodus Begins), from the series "Unterm Hakenkreuz (Under the Swastika)"
Lea Grundig
1934
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A group of prominent Negroes tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Nixon at the White House to discuss black capitalism. Members of the group talk with reporters outside the White House. They are left to right: Floyd McKissick (with fur hat); Jackie Robinson, former baseball player, (center); and Dr. Walter Cooper, Rochester, New York, January 25, 1969
Unknown
1969
Image Not Available for Mayor Teddy Kollek in his office, Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek in his office, Jerusalem
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The State visit of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Israel, visiting with former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion: looking at books in Ben Gurion’s study at Kibbutz Sde Boker
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hell Night, Times Square, New York
Lou Stoumen
1979
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I gross over $200,000 a year as the owner-manager of a donut store, but there's a price to pay. I come to work at 2:00 A.M. to begin the daily routine of making 250 dozen donuts. I eat dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon and am in bed by 7:30. I was a Depression baby. Now kids say there has to be something better., from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan looking through telescope while visiting the Suez Canal with General Dan Laner
1971
Image Not Available for Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Unknown
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Conversation (two young men talking on street), USA
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1950s
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Fisherman showing caught puffer fish to camera (Sharma belongs), Sinai
1971