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Their arms were notched like a hunter’s rifle. “Show me your tattoos,” I said to the prisoners. They did. A fight broke out. They were a box of matches ready to go up in flames
Their arms were notched like a hunter’s rifle. “Show me your tattoos,” I said to the prisoners. They did. A fight broke out. They were a box of matches ready to go up in flames

Their arms were notched like a hunter’s rifle. “Show me your tattoos,” I said to the prisoners. They did. A fight broke out. They were a box of matches ready to go up in flames

Artist (American, 1929 – 2006)
Date1976
Period20th century
Mediumgelatin silver print (vintage)
DimensionsImage Size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
Object Size: 8 x 10 inches
Credit LineGift of Jill M. Garling and Thomas J. Wilson
Object number2015.193
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Un révolte a bord. Ah! tu veux faire ton capitaine!.. ah! tu me traites de jobard!… tiens… je veux que la Seine lave cette injure!… [A revolt on board. Ah! you want to be your own captain!… Ah! you are treating me like an idiot.. hey… I hope the Seine washes away that insult!...] from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens [The Parisian Oarsmen], number 13, published in Le Charivari
Un révolte a bord. Ah! tu veux faire ton capitaine!.. ah! tu me traites de jobard!… tiens… je veux que la Seine lave cette injure!…
[A revolt on board. Ah! you want to be your own captain!… Ah! you are treating me like an idiot.. hey… I hope the Seine washes away that insult!...]
from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens [The Parisian Oarsmen], number 13, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
published June 5–6, 1843
Object number: 1981.015
Prison tattoos, Walls Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Prison tattoos, Walls Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968/printed later
Object number: 2014.153
Homicide detectives working around the clock on a double cop-killing case. The detective said, “We’re working this case on our own time.”
Homicide detectives working around the clock on a double cop-killing case. The detective said, “We’re working this case on our own time.”
Leonard Freed
1976
Object number: 2015.197
Photo: Jonathan Blake, Vermont
Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta. from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Kara Elizabeth Walker
2005
Object number: 2008.015.06
Fire: The Flames Passion in the Heart (Bonnô no mune no hi); Actor Bandô Shûka I as the Nun Seigen (Seigen-ni) from the series Collection of Exemplars of the Five Elements (Nazorae gogyô)
Fire: The Flames Passion in the Heart (Bonnô no mune no hi); Actor Bandô Shûka I as the Nun Seigen (Seigen-ni) from the series Collection of Exemplars of the Five Elements (Nazorae gogyô)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month
Object number: SC 2012.03
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.103
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.104
–Eh! bien monsieur, et mes trois termes….. vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!….. [Well Monsieur, and my three months rent… you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral.] From the series Locataires et propriétaires [tenants and landlords], number 31, published in Le Charivari
–Eh! bien monsieur, et mes trois termes….. vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!…..
[Well Monsieur, and my three months rent… you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral.]
From the series Locataires et propriétaires [tenants and landlords], number 31, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
published June 4, 1848
Object number: 1986.046
Sketch for a painting of an arms dealer
Sketch for a painting of an arms dealer
Jean-Léon Gérôme
c. 1875
Object number: 2001.014
A Call to Arms
A Call to Arms
Dmitri Baltermants
1941–45, printed 2003 under the supervision of the estate
Object number: 2016.175
Seated brother and sister with arms around one another
Seated brother and sister with arms around one another
Mike Disfarmer
c. 1940
Object number: 2017.101
Portrait of mother smiling at infant in her arms
Portrait of mother smiling at infant in her arms
Jacques Lowe
c. 1960
Object number: 2017.175