Title from caption on object: “U.S. Casualties in Vietnam...”, November 1967

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 × 10 3/4 in.)

sheet: 18.6 × 28 cm (7 5/16 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.576

Artists / Makers

Al Chang (artist) American, 1922 - 2007

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Inscription

retouching across recto in grey paint; crop marks top left, lower left, and lower right in black ink and graphite; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite perpendicular: 96; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / NOV 25 1967; across center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: [reproduction of image] / U. S. casualties in Vietnam, when we read or hear about them, / [t]he mere statistic—a thing we feel sorry about but with which we / [fi]nd it hard to identify. Pictures are another matter. Above, / [m]embers of the 173d Airborne Brigade file solemnly past the / bodies of comrades who fell in the vicious battle for Hill 875; by unknown hand, center in red ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Vietnam: U.S. Casualties; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: NOV 24 1967

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary