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Alfred Hopf as Blood Donor

Date: 09 17 1953
Description: "Alfred Hopf makes his final visit to the blood center to give his last pint of blood before his 60th birthday makes him ineligible to donate again. He is ...
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Tibetan Refugee

Date: 1959
Description: A refugee from Tibet, photographed by journalist Cecil Brown in Sikkim, India, shortly after the Dalai Lama and his followers fled from their country.
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Displaced Persons

Date: 1945
Description: Foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf saying goodbye to Czechoslovakian children after interviewing them about their relief needs.
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Red Crescent Worker Examines Patient

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) examining a young girl's teeth. The girl is wearing a patterned shawl and is reaching for the man's hat. Th...
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Red Crescent Worker and Patient

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker inspecting an Algerian woman's eye in a tent. The woman is wearing a shawl and a head scarf. The ten...
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Red Crescent Worker with Child

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker spooning medicine into a young child's mouth. The child's head is half shaven. Behind them are two women, a yo...
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Algerian Child Wearing Chapelle's Eyeglasses

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian girl in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. A man is holding Dickey Chapelle's glasses up to the girl's face. She is wearing a patterne...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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Refugees at Luang Prabang Airport, Laos

Date: 05 1961
Description: Three refugees posing for a picture in front of a corrugated structure for shade at the Luang Prabang airport, Laos. Two soldiers stand in the background a...
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: A crowd of pedestrians, trucks, and cyclists on a road waiting to go through an arch in a damaged building amid the post-Tet destruction in Hue.
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Refugees at a Red Cross aid station in Hue shortly after the Tet offensive left much of the city in ruins. This scene was witnessed by American journalist ...
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Street Scene after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of refugees after the Tet Offensive, camped out front of their damaged homes. Although not identified, it is believed the image is a street s...
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Medical Examination, Refugee Camp, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Medical examination of a boy in a refugee camp in the mountain region of Vietnam on the border of Laos. Treatment provided by a joint MEDICO/U.S. Army huma...
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Passport to Happiness

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Portrait of Fricis Brakmanis, age 41, and his bride-to-be Maija Smeils, 40, holding their wedding license. Both had spent time in Latvian forced-labor camp...
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Hungarian Refugee

Date: 02 23 1957
Description: Lasslo (Larry) Csukardy, a Hungarian refugee, receives instruction about operating a tractor from his "American father" Don Andree.
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Hungarian Refugee

Date: 02 23 1957
Description: Lasslo (Larry) Csukardy, a Hungarian refugee, receives the first Valentines of his life from Mrs. Don Andree, on the left, and Mary Natvig, a teacher at Se...
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Hungarian Refugee

Date: 02 23 1957
Description: Louis Paxon, an engineer from Los Angeles working for an aerial survey firm in Dane County and also a Hungarian refugee, welcomes the Hungarian refugee Las...
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Moving Out

Date: 12 26 1967
Description: Typed note on the back: SGP...UNIPIX North of Hue, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese woman carries her possessions as her home burns behind her. The South Vietn...
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Three Young Women on an Outing

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling women stand beside a horse-drawn carriage near Two Rivers. The horses are wearing knotted, corded fly nets and blinders. The carriage has a c...
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Hungarians Crossing into Austria

Date: 11 28 1956
Description: Hungarian families crossing snowy grainfields into Austria near the village of Andau. They had walked at least ten miles over this terrain in near zero-deg...

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