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DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.2 x 15.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.305
Classificationsphotograph
Despite means of modern transportation available in South Vietnam, elephants are still a major means of locomotion. Shown here is an elephant being used for transportation by a Montagnard tribesman in Quang Duc province in the Central Highlands
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Being a broker is the old "buy'em low, sell 'em high game. After the one o'clock bell, brokers have fifteen minutes to close their market orders. This is done by shouting your bids and positioning your hands. Palms out means sell, palms in means buy. I can assure you it's a fun game to win. San Francisco, California, from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Thanksgiving Day - Ways and Means
Winslow Homer
November 27, 1858
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Means to an End . . . A Shadow Drama in Five Acts
Kara Elizabeth Walker
1995
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
U.S. Army Lt. James Gleason, a bandage over a head wound, talks to fellow soldiers after surviving a heavy Viet Cong ambush near Cheo Reo in the central highlands of Vietnam. Gleason and other Americans were advising a Vietnamese force which was to evacuate a small town near Cheo Reo when the guerrillas attacked the motorized convoy. Four Americans and about 50 Vietnamese soldiers were killed in the attack, June 30, 1965
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Circus Elephants
John Steuart Curry
1936
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
He Listens to Them: Major General Nguyen Duc Thang squats and listens to old Vietnamese woman explain drainage ditch she and other villagers are digging along road in countryside. Thang averages 20 days a month in the field as head of program seeking pacification of South Vietnamese countryside, April 1967
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Elephant Walk: An elephant carries a visitor past the Angkor Wat ruins on December 1st, 1967. The government, with the help of France, spends $1 million annually to aid 1,000 Cambodians working to uncover and preserve the structures while, at the same time, open the vast jungle-covered area of ruins for tourists
1967
Image Not Available for Delta Farm Girl: young South Vietnamese farm girl pauses for photo deep in the Mekong Delta province of Phong Dinh, South Vietnam, recently. Seasonal harvest will continue through January, but experts say rice crop may be disappointing due to weather conditions, October 28, 1972
Delta Farm Girl: young South Vietnamese farm girl pauses for photo deep in the Mekong Delta province of Phong Dinh, South Vietnam, recently. Seasonal harvest will continue through January, but experts say rice crop may be disappointing due to weather conditions, October 28, 1972
1972
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Le Cauchemar de L'Éléphant Blanc (The Nightmare of the White Elephant), from the portfolio "Jazz"
Henri Matisse
1947
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Elephant trainer, Tri-Valley area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
1974-1976
Image Not Available for North Vietnamese Captives: A U.S. Marine escorts North Vietnamese regular army captives to evacuation helicopter near Quang Ngai, 335 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, March 7th, 1966. During weekend of March 5th through 6th, Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers annihilated a 2,000-man communist regiment, killing almost half of them
North Vietnamese Captives: A U.S. Marine escorts North Vietnamese regular army captives to evacuation helicopter near Quang Ngai, 335 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, March 7th, 1966. During weekend of March 5th through 6th, Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers annihilated a 2,000-man communist regiment, killing almost half of them
1966