Cramped accommodations
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Cramped accommodations

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Cramped accommodations

December 10, 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.5 x 17 cm (8 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Paper: 22.9 x 18.1 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions [paper attached to print] recto (typed): 13396 D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CRAMPED ACCOMODATIONS[sic] / AT LEAST FIVE PERSONS, MEMBERS OF ONE / FAMILY FLEEING BEFORE ADVANCING CHINESE / COMMUNISTS, HUGGLE AGAINST THE COLD UNDER A / BLANKET AND ATOP ALL THE POSSESSIONS THEY / COULD CARRY AS THEY NESTLE DANGEROUSLY / BETWEEN TWO BOX CARS AT SINMAK, JUST NORTH / OF THE 38TH PARALLEL. WHEN THE TRAINS REACHED / THE PARALLEL THE REFUGEES WERE TAKEN OFF AS A / SECURITY MEASURE, ARMY OFFICIALS SAID.

[paper attached to print] verso (typed): ROC 705P 12/10/50 STF MD 24 / EAST A LIST TMC WW LON

verso (stamped): [underlined] NOTICE / [illegible] / ASSOCIATED PRESS
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