Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: PICKERELL, James H.
Event Date: 1966-05-29
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.108193

Inscriptions:
recto [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: 22 SSgt. BROWN -- PAGEANT MAGAZINE / MAY 29, 1966; typed on label: 22- SSgt. Brown eats some tuna fish that his wife sent him from home. Packets / of concentrated soup, kool-aid, fruit, tuna fish and items like this are what / the men of the 101st like to get from home. These items can be bought in the / Saigon PX and some of the other large BX's, but these men seldom get a chance/ to go to the PX and must rely on their families to send them the little things / that make living on C - rations not too unenjoyable.; stamped: [star] / Credit: / JAMES PICKERELL / from BLACK STARVerso: SSgt. BROWN -- PAGEANT MAGAZINE / MAY 29, 1966Verso: 22- SSgt. Brown eats some tuna fish that his wife sent him from home. Packets / of concentrated soup, kool-aid, fruit, tuna fish and items like this are what / the men of the 101st like to get from home. These items can be bought in the / Saigon PX and some of the other large BX's, but these men seldom get a chance/ to go to the PX and must rely on their families to send them the little things / that make living on C - rations not too unenjoyable.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 1 person; Aerial View; Black; C-ration; Day; Eating; Emergency rations; Low angle View; Male; Man; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Rationing; Soldier; Spoon; Staff sergeant; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Tuna; Unrest, conflicts and war; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ARMY / UNITED STATES FOOD (EATING)
Retouching: N