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Label TextThis documentary image was taken for publication in a newspaper or magazine during the Vietnam-American War (1955-1975). The Vietnam War is often referred to as the first “living room war,” as it was widely covered on television and in printed media. At this time cameras were smaller and developed film could be sent via phone lines or satellite, thus hitting news desks faster than was possible in previous conflicts. In this era, photojournalists had an incredible impact on shaping the public opinion of the wa
DimensionsOverall: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm)
Accession Number 2025.315
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
Image Not Available for Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
Image Not Available for Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
1973
Image Not Available for And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Village home, Cape Cod
Dorothy Norman
1937
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Returning Home, from "London: A Pilgrimage"
Gustave Doré
August 3, 1872
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Morning Walk - Young Ladies School Promenading the Avenue
Winslow Homer
March 28, 1868
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Thanksgiving Day, 1860 - The Two Great Classes of Society
Winslow Homer
December 1, 1860
Image Not Available for David Ben Gurion during his daily walk into part of the Negev desert, near his new home at the Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel
David Ben Gurion during his daily walk into part of the Negev desert, near his new home at the Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel
1971
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Three hatted villagers, Portugal
Ken Heyman
1964
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Study for a Large Outdoor Sculpture in the Form of a Clothespin
Claes Oldenburg
1972-1974
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Outdoor cooking scene with woman in wheelchair, Sicily
Leonard Freed
1975
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Outdoor bed
Nathan Lerner
ca. 1930s, printed later