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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.558
People
Attributed to Yvon Cornu
Title
Blasting Support For A Leatherneck Patrol: U.S. Marine artillery blasts from Firebase Cunningham in support of a Marine patrol which made contact with North Vietnamese more than 430 yards away, March 2, 1969. The firebase is one of several hilltop bases along the Laos border in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1969
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374252

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
18.4 × 21.9 cm (7 1/4 × 8 5/8 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
2021.558
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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