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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: 8 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (21 x 18.7 cm)
Accession Number 2025.330
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Man hanging from prison cell bars doing pullups, NYC
Leonard Freed
1972
Image Not Available for Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
Image Not Available for House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
1975
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
Untitled (Man Looking through Fence)
Joseph Cornell
ca. 1970
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
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
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Idolum Indorum Pagodes, & Templa Mahumetanorum (Pagodas of the Indian Idols, & Temples of the Mohammedans), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, Part 2 India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sgt. Ralph Kilpatrick - Soldier Behind North Korea Lines for 77 Days: Taejon, South Korea: An army mess sergeant was the hero of the 24th Division when he returned from 77 death-despairing days behind communist lines. Ralph Kilpatrick, of Phoebus, Virginia, came out of the once-held enemy hills to his buddies in the 19th Infantry Regiment in good health with a harrowing story of grimly hanging to life in enemy-saturated territory. Kilpatrick is pictured as he received a medical checkup from Lieutenant Alfred J. Grose, of Rochester, New York, October 4, 1950
1950
Image Not Available for Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1951
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
Image Not Available for Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
1965
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