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DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21 x 16.5 cm)
Accession Number 2025.322
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Watching the Parade of German POW's, Moscow, 1945, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Romanian POWs from the Battle of Stalingrad, Nov.-Dec. 1942, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio II"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Two German POWs, 1945, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The March of the German POWs, 1942, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Pow-a-sheek a Fox Chief
Thomas Loraine McKenney
James Hall
after Charles Bird King
1838
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
air gets into everything even nothing
Ugo Rondinone
2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Welcome to the Prince of Wales
Winslow Homer
October 20, 1860
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Welcome to our Town--B
Masuo Ikeda
1969-1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
3rd Avenue, New York, from the "Welcome Home" series
Todd Webb
1945
Image Not Available for Yom Kippur War: the Israeli army made a rapid advance towards the Suez Canal and took hundreds of Egyptian soldiers as prisoners of war. Afterwards, they were loaded in trucks and taken to a special camp, Fayed, Egypt, October 24, 1973
Yom Kippur War: the Israeli army made a rapid advance towards the Suez Canal and took hundreds of Egyptian soldiers as prisoners of war. Afterwards, they were loaded in trucks and taken to a special camp, Fayed, Egypt, October 24, 1973
1973
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
Everywhere we go we challenge the local high school team to a game. We let them win. It’s all for charity. Points don’t count unless you shoot from the back of the donkey. Donkeys are dumb and uncooperative, and they really hate to move. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 1999