[AFRICAN AMERICANA - VIETNAM]. A group of 64 photographs assembled by Private First Class Robert M. Kimbrough, incl. images of African American soldiers in the field.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA - VIETNAM]. A group of 64 photographs assembled by Private First Class Robert M. Kimbrough, incl. images of African American soldiers in the field.
6 x 11 1/2 in. comb-bound album with front free endpaper inscribed, "R M Kimbrough, Veit-Nam [sic], 67/68 Nov-Nov." Contains 64 photographs, most approx. 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. snapshots mounted recto/verso in plastic sleeves. Images include wartime portraits of (presumably) Kimbrough and fellow African American and white soldiers posed with Army vehicles, weapons, ammunition, and other objects, and relaxing on base with beers. One particularly well-composed image shows an African American soldier leaning against a large metal drum of some sort, on a ship with an American flag waving overhead, and one of his fellow soldiers in the foreground holding an issue of Stars and Stripes newspaper. A pair of images of the same African American soldier, a radio man, feature him in two different poses with an XM177 carbine. A few images feature a howitzer, including one featuring 4 soldiers posing with 2 large shells. In one of the images of a group of African American soliers relaxing with beers, one of the men wears a 9th Infantry Division patch on his sleeve.
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