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DimensionsOverall: 7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.290
Classificationsphotograph
Sleep in Any Language: A combat interpreter with the U.S. Marine unit southwest of Da Nang catches a quick catnap during an all-day sweep through the area. Like many troopers, he has learned to catch his sleep when he can—a quick catnap here and there to keep him going. The operation was conducted against reported North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units but contact was light, November 12, 1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"Disciples sleep while Jesus sleeps; Jesus' prediction of signs in heaven and the coming of the Son of Man," from a book of commentary on the Bible (Latin), Luke 21: 25-28
Anonymous
16th century
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Revenge Riots Sweep America: President Johnson called federal troops into the ntaion's capital yesterday to restore peace to this frightened city after a day of arson, looting and violence in the wake of the slaying of Negro civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Here, a trooper stands gaurd in the street as another (left) patrols a completely demolished building. Negroes in at least 20 cities demonstrated their anger in violence at the death of Dr. King, April 6, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"Jesus sleeps during the storm," from a book of commentary on the Bible (Latin), Luke 8: 22-25
Anonymous
16th century
Image Not Available for Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Unknown
1969
Image Not Available for Youthful Offender: Looking like a juvenile delinquent behind prison bars, this young South Vietnamese boy is actually looking into a Buddhist pagoda from behind a spiked fence in Saigon. He was watching a ceremony which was taking place in the pagoda, September 1973
Youthful Offender: Looking like a juvenile delinquent behind prison bars, this young South Vietnamese boy is actually looking into a Buddhist pagoda from behind a spiked fence in Saigon. He was watching a ceremony which was taking place in the pagoda, September 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Karate is a highly competitive sport, like tennis or boxing. It’s on one. For $30 a month a kid can get some good mental and physical training. He can learn coordination, balance, timing and self-defense. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1974, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Negro Leaders Testify: Grant Reynolds (left), New York State Commissioners of Correction, and A. Philip Randolph, head of the sleeping car porters' union, testify today before the senate Armed Services Committee. Randolph said millions of Negroes will refuse to register or serve under draft and military training unless racial segregation and discrimination are ended. Reynolds said he would follow any program proposed by Randolph, Washington DC, March 31, 1948
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1948
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Face Of The Enemy: A Viet Cong soldier, captured during an ambush of government troops near Cheo Reo, looks apprehensively at his captors as he awaits interrogation, July 1st, 1965. The 18-year-old guerrilla was one of two prisoners taken by government troops. Heavy casualties were inflicted by both sides in the fire fight that followed the ambush
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: American wounded in battle in South Korea are evacuated by jeeps and litter from the front line. They pass a column of troops being moved up to the front. One man is going into battle well shaved as he soaps his face, July 10, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On The Alert: Members of a Communist Neo Lao Haksat anti-aircraft unit prepare their guns for action in a “liberated” area, somewhere in Laos. The soldiers claim to have shot down 116 U.S. aircraft, August 1972
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Training Pays Off: South Korea: In the rugged, treacherous terrain of Korea, the battle of supply is quite often more important and more violent than the actual combat between men. One unit of the 19th Infantry Regiment, their stones and ammunition shrunken by poor transport and worse roads, discovered a small railroad. Near their position and proceed to make use of it. Utilizing some battered equipment and their own ingenuity, they fashioned an adequate supply line on rails. The tiny railroad was named “Spaulding’s Spur,” after an executive officer in the Regiment. A group of GI’s, aided by some South Koreans, assemble a railroad car from some discarded equipment they found, September 23, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: South Korean Army officer, right, writes the name and unit of a retreating South Korean soldier, July 16, 1950
1950