Vietnam War, 1963-1967

Extent:

14 boxes

Scope and content:

On assignment with Look magazine from 1963 to 1967, Karales travelled to South Vietnam twice to cover U.S. Special Forces units and their role during the Vietnam War. Selected images from the thousands of frames shot by Karales were published in Look magazine, and were reproduced extensively for other publications. All of the prints are in black-and-white, but there is a large group of over 1100 color slides. There are also contact sheets and small work prints included in this series. A CD-R with 31 jpeg files of black-and-white Vietnam images taken by Karales is included; the files have been migrated to a library server.

Subjects in the images include: U.S. soldiers in Saigon, in combat, and at rest; daily interactions between American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, including soldiers giving away candy, food, medical supplies, and other items; images of dead U.S. and Viet Cong; village scenes, including attacks on villages and subsequent relocation efforts; a Catholic chaplain's service; Vietnamese prison camps and hospitals; U.S. doctors in Vietnam; a Montagnard refugee camp; patrol scenes and other action in the field and on rivers; a delta rice and sugar cane factories, with workers in some images; schools and temples; and Saigon street scenes, often with U.S. soldiers buying goods or interacting with civilians. Some images are aerial shots. There are images of prominent figures such as Sam Castan (reporter for Look, who worked closely with Karales and died in Vietnam), D. Halberstam, Ray Hernandon, and General Westmoreland. There are also a few pictures of Karales.

Some images bear titles assigned by Karales; titles in brackets supplied by library staff. Prints are often stamped on the back with a year. All prints are marked on back with the roll and frame number. NOTE: titles on archival folders were taken from original envelopes, but often refer only to a subset of images in that folder; for example, a folder marked "Construction" may in fact contain only five or six images of construction projects, with the rest being street and combat scenes.

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