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Collection Structure Overseas Weekly photographs >  Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14906
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14906
Collection Title Overseas Weekly photographs
Photographer Hirst, Don
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date Created February 15, 1969
Description Contact sheet containing 24 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - Taxi - Sp4 Christopher Kelly. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: Overs pazifik - Dec. 9 - ID for contact sheets, Taxi story - All pictures show Sp4 Christopher Kelly of the 101st Abn Div trying to talk taxi drivers into turning on their meters before taking him downtown. Kelly was standing outside Tan Son Nhut AB main gate. Photographs from this contact sheet published in the Overseas Weekly (Vol. 24, No. 6) issued February 15, 1969, along with the article titled "Taxi, Taxi Everywhere" on page 15 and reported out of Saigon at the Tan Son Nhut airbase. General captions for the photographs read: "But not a single one will flip his meter on." and "After long wait, trooper finally got ride with meter turned on. Surprise! It didn't work." Photographs by Don Hirst.
Subject(s) Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Language(s) English
Format Still Image
Medium contact sheets
Record Number 2014c35.425
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