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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 7008200664
DimensionsOverall: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Accession Number 2024.306
Classificationsphotograph
A line of South Vietnamese marines moves across a shallow branch of the Mekong River during an operation near Neak Luong, Cambodia on August 20th, 1970, major base for such operations in Cambodia’s eastern region. Monsoon rains have swollen streams and rivers in the area and troops often are in and out of the water dozens of times daily
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 1968
Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 1968
1968
Image Not Available for Money Matters: Two small Vietnamese girls are all smiles as they examine some folding money given to them by their mother as they boarded a South Vietnamese navy refugee ship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the trip to South Vietnam on August 22nd, 1970. The children had been refugees in the Cambodian capital for the past few months
Money Matters: Two small Vietnamese girls are all smiles as they examine some folding money given to them by their mother as they boarded a South Vietnamese navy refugee ship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the trip to South Vietnam on August 22nd, 1970. The children had been refugees in the Cambodian capital for the past few months
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Women Power: In some factories in North Vietnam, where power sources are not readily available, human power is put to work. Using a wheelless bicycle frame installed beside machine, a lathe is attached and a worker pedals to maintain power operations. In this bicycle factory in Hanoi, this girl operates such a device during a power failure within the plan servicing the factory, November 14, 1967
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Directs Tank Landing: Lieutenant Adlai Stevenson Jr. Liaison Officer of the First Marine Regiment (right), directs tan landing via telephone on the beachhead where the leathernecks’ simulated assault operations were held. Reinforced regiments of leathernecks including the First, splashed ashore at an East Coast fishing village of South Korea May 3, in the first phase of the Marine’s largest amphibious training exercise since the end of the Korean War. Marine at left unidentified, May 6, 1954
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Dundrum River (A River's Bank)
Seymour Haden
1863
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hard Passage On River Route To Phnom Penh: Bullet hole in wheelhouse window frames another ship in supply convoy on Mekong River. Machinegun bullet passed between heads of captain and river pilot
1975
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I gross over $200,000 a year as the owner-manager of a donut store, but there's a price to pay. I come to work at 2:00 A.M. to begin the daily routine of making 250 dozen donuts. I eat dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon and am in bed by 7:30. I was a Depression baby. Now kids say there has to be something better., from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Handy Helpers: Members of the 1st Air Cavalry Division pass a child from hand to hand across a rain swollen stream near Xuan Que as they helped South Vietnamese refugees move to a resettlement camp from their village last week. The villagers volunteered to leave the area which had become a battleground between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. The village was destroyed after the villagers left to deny sanctuary to the enemy, January 7, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Operation Smack Reaches a Climax for One Man: Medical corpsmen carry a wounded combat man to an aid station on the Korean front after he was wounded in “Operation Smack”—Sunday’s unsuccessful assault on Spud Hill positions held by Chinese Reds. Other medics stand by to give assistance when needed. The attack, watched by high army officers supplied with gay-colored programs, now is under fire in Washington and in London, January 29, 1953
1953
Image Not Available for Forcibly Evicted: Police lift one of the residents of Resurrection City to carry her from the area which was cleared after expiration of the permit to occupy the land in Washington, June 24, 1968. Police Chief John Layton said about 80 arrests, including the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, were made during the clearing operation, Washington DC, June 25, 1968
Forcibly Evicted: Police lift one of the residents of Resurrection City to carry her from the area which was cleared after expiration of the permit to occupy the land in Washington, June 24, 1968. Police Chief John Layton said about 80 arrests, including the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, were made during the clearing operation, Washington DC, June 25, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Smoke Screen: Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat-New York, blows a cloud a cigar smoke today at Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Powell, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, announced a victory in his campaign to increase the participation of the poor in the anti poverty programs. In return for pledges on that point he promised fast action on a bill, which he had been holding up, to extend and expand the operation, May 12, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Operation Prisoner Exchange: This is the receiving area at Panmunjom, Korea, where United Nations POWs are being released by the Communists. At left, the Communist ambulances unload the United Nations soldiers and at right, the American ambulances which take them on to Freedom Village, near Munsan, April 22, 1953
1953