Opium Town
Photograph
Opium Town
1971
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 9 1/4 in. (15.2 × 23.5 cm)
Paper: 7 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (19.7 × 23.8 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0041
Inscriptions Printed above image: (ADVANCE FOR FRIDAY PMS, AUG. 13, STORY ON DRUG TRAFFIC IN SOUTHEAST ASIA) \ (NY 10-AUG. 12)--OPIUM TOWN--The Laotian village of Ban Houei Sai lies nestled, right, along the \ Mekong River with the country of Thailand across the river, left, and Burma to the north. Until \ recently, the village has been a major source of heroin to South Vietnam. Opium poppies, grown \ by Meo tribespeople, was processed into heroin in the village. (AP Wirephoto) (gr50500stf/faas) 71.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: HF-VNM-272
Stamped in red on verso, C: AUG 13 1971
Inscribed in black marker on verso, C: Laos.
Printed in black on applied label on verso, TRC: mea 879
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: HF-VNM-272
Stamped in red on verso, C: AUG 13 1971
Inscribed in black marker on verso, C: Laos.
Printed in black on applied label on verso, TRC: mea 879
