Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Event Date: ca. 1965
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.081117

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso; handwritten in pencil: DR. RICHARD PERRY, ORTHOPEFiC SURGEON WITH / PROJECT VIETNAM. / 10-66-963; handwritten in pencil: SHEET 13 / [line] / [hash symbol 8A; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNON MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR; adhered typed label: ‘’The VietNamese, like any people, can sense levels of proficiency. Naturally / they would resent a low level ability. The feeling would be that the / Americans are using the Vietnamese people to train their doctors just as / we use the VC to train our soldiers.’’ / ‘’’ Our main problem here is a matter of trust. A medical program such as / Project Vietnam offers us an unusual opportunity to stimulate well founded / trust.”

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; Architecture; Door; Dress; Face; Female; Full-Length Portrait; Hair; Indoors; Low angle View; Night; No Photostyle; Panoramic; Shirt; Social issues; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / PEOPLE: CHILDREN
Retouching: N