Photograph
Swords into Plowshares, United Nations
| Close-up of "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares," a sculpture by Yevgeniy Vuchetich donated to the United Nations by the Soviet Union. The sculpture shows a man holding a hammer aloft in the process of beating a sword into a plowshare. In the background a developed shore of the East River is visible with a large Pepsi billboard. |
| Image ID: | 74478 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1968 |
| Creator Name: | Quinney, Richard |
| City: | New York |
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| State: | New York |
| Collection Name: | Richard Quinney papers, 1921-2018 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2002-085 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 |
| Image is included in Once Upon an Island: New York Photographs 1968-1970, by Richard Quinney and published by Borderland Books, 2011. |
| Sculpture |
| Advertising |
| Billboards |
| Cities and towns |
| Outdoor photography |
| Rivers |
| Shorelines |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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