Saving What's Left
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Photograph
Saving What's Left
December 18, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.3 x 21.7 cm (6 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 18 x 22.4 cm (7 1/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0027
Inscriptions recto (in image): (NY4-Dec.18)SAVING WHAT'S LEFT--A South Vietnamese peasant woman and / her daughters carry pans of muddy water from a canal and throw it / against a burning shock of rice straw adjacent to their farm hut. The / straw was set on fire and part of their dwelling destroyed by U.S. heli- / copters firing on Viet Cong guerrillas with rockets and machine guns. / The women were hiding in a bunker during the action, which took place / in the Mekong Delta, about 60 miles southwest of Saigon. (AP Wirephoto) (rb40437stf/feas)1968.
verso (ink): Vietnam War
verso (ink): Vietnam War
