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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Colonel with Soldiers in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Colonel O'Donnel, a commanding officer for the 14th Infantry, posing with two other soldiers. The three men are outside and there is an American flag behin...
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Pacific Athletic Club Director

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, director of the Red Cross's Pacific Athletic Club, posing for a picture by the shore in Tinian at the site of the new Red Cross Club. Kelly is...
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USS Franklin Crew at Show

Date: 03 1945
Description: Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin...
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Panamanian Children with American Woman

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian children talking to an American woman near the Chucunaque River in Panama. The American woman is wearing a safari hat and jumpsuit an...
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Algerian Women in Tent

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian women receiving treatment in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. One woman is nursing a baby. Another woman is standing while examining an...
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Algerian Children and Woman

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian woman with braids posing in front of a dwelling with three children. The family is barefoot, and one of the children is holding two rocks.
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Two Algerian Children

Date: 08 1957
Description: Two Algerian children sitting outside, posing for a photograph. An older girl with braids in her hair is sitting with her arm around a younger child. They ...
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Algerian Girl

Date: 08 1957
Description: A teenage Algerian girl posing outdoors. The girl is wearing two necklaces and bracelets. She has her hair in braids and is wearing a flowered dress. She i...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Front of Building

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of members of the 26th of July Movement in front of a building in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is in the foreground a...
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26th of July Movement Members Resting by Tree

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement rest by a tree in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is holding an espresso cup in the foreground, and Celia ...
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Woman with Mule on Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: A woman carrying a basket on her back leads a mule laden with bundles across an airstrip at Keukacham village, Laos. There are 55-gallon drums near a tent,...
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Medical Examination, Refugee Camp, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Medical examination of a boy in a refugee camp in the mountain region of Vietnam on the border of Laos. Treatment provided by a joint MEDICO/U.S. Army huma...
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Dickey Chapelle at Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A...
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Tien Vinh Le in Binh Hung

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: Tien Vinh Le holding flowers and standing outdoors on his wedding day in Binh Hung, Vietnam.
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Attendants at the Le Wedding

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: A portrait of five women, standing in a line outdoors, who are attendants of the bride at the wedding of Anh Le Vuong and Tien Vinh Le in Binh Hung, Vietna...
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Anh Le Vuong's Wedding

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: Anh Le Vuong is escorted down the aisle during her wedding to Tien Vinh Le in Binh Hung, Vietnam.
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Anh Le Vuong's Wedding

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: Anh Le Vuong is escorted down the aisle as her wedding ceremony begins in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Her attendants are standing in a line on the right.
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Anh Le Vuong and Tien Vinh Le

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: Anh Le Vuong, the bride, standing with her groom, Tien Vinh Le as their wedding ceremony begins in Binh Hung, Vietnam. An attendant is holding a parasol ov...

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