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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.557
People
Claude Bohner
Title
Trooper with Brigade of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division, which was part of Operation Oregon, searching for Viet Cong 325 miles northeast of Saigon. The villagers use this method of drying to preserve the potatoes until the next harvest. The village was almost completely abandoned when the U.S. soldiers arrived
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1967
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374245

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
21 × 16.5 cm (8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Doug and Joan Hansen, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Doug and Joan Hansen
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.557
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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