Includes duplicates.

Written on verso: The palace is known for its eclectic collection of architectural styles.

Written on verso: This house was said to be a place where Hanoi's Prime Minister Pham Van Dong once lived. Quang Ngai is in central Vietnam south of Danang.

Written on verso: This hotel, Hanoi's most modern, was built with Cuban aid.

Written on verso: The main auditorium seats about 2,500.

Written on verso: Original in color.

Written on verso: The statue was torn down in May 1975.

Written on verso: Pg 55.

Written on verso: One of the many small, crowded back streets of the city

Written on verso: This boy seems well accepted by his friends.

Written on verso: Army officer takes his son south to the Mekong Delta to show him the area where the father fought during the war.

Written on verso: Deck boy.

Written on verso: The sign reads: [top] "Wherever the Viet-Cong remain, our compatriots are suffering" [bottom] "Which side will you choose? This is southern Viet-Nam [left]. This is the north [right]." [Tra Vinh town was also known as Phu Vinh; the alternative name for Tra Vinh province was Vinh Binh].

Written on verso: Sign reads "The people of the South are determined -- Not to sell rice to the communists; -- Not to support the underground communist infrastructure; -- Not to allow the communists to renew their aggression.".

Written on verso: The Soviet cosmonaut on the flight was Victor Gorbatko.

Written on verso: Vietnamese papers, long mouthpieces for official pronouncement, are venturing onto the uncertain ground of investigative reporting.

Written on verso: Streamer across top: "Long live the Socialist Republic of Vietnam." Left: "Prepared to defend the socialist fatherland." Next: "The undying spirit of the southern uprising - 23 November 1940 - 1988." Next: Marks "unity, cooperation, friendship" between Vietnam and Soviet Union in offshore oil exploration. Right: "Commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam-Soviet treaty of Friendship and cooperation."

Written on verso: Man in the background is mixing clay.

Written on verso: The bricks are made from lumps of clay, using a wood frame, at a small-scale kiln on the outskirts of the city. Molded bricks dry in the sun before being fired.

Written on verso: The building is made partly of pre-cast concrete panels like those in right midground.

Written on verso: Lacquer and other crafts are a source of foreign exchange.

Written on verso: Quach Thi Ho is 78. Chu An is 80. Musician is son of host Le Thanh Bao.

Written on verso: Fire was set by anti-Thieu demonstrators to call attention to leaflets they had scattered in the street.

Written on verso: Leaflets were scattered by unseen protesters.

Dao Du Vat's sign says in Vietnamese "I have no confidence in President Nguyen Van Thieu."

Written on verso: The demonstration protested restrictive press laws.

Written on verso: A few minutes later, crowds on either side of police lines surged through to help break the line.

Written on verso: Large banner calls for implementation of Article 11 of Paris peace agreement. Small banner behind them calls beating of nuns "savage."

Written on verso: While filming the beating of a young demonstrator, Howell was felled by a kick from a plainclothes policeman.

Written on verso: Deputy Ho Ngoc Nhuan being harassed by police at demonstration in My tho.

Written on verso: Deputy Ho Ngoc Nhuan being harassed by police at demonstration in My tho.

Written on verso: They were blocked when trying to go to National Assembly bldg.

Written on verso: The banners call for peace and for implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Written on verso: The banner calls for peace, freedom, food and clothing.

Written on verso: Kieu Mong Thu (top), Ho Ngoc Nhuam (far right) and Nguyen Cong Hoan (back of head).

Written on verso: Making guitars, part of the vocational training at a drug treatment center in the former Fatima Church in Thu Duc.

Written on verso: Special exercises help drug addicts relieve the tension of withdrawal during treatment at a center in the former Fatima Church in Thu Duc.

Written on verso: The church had been turned into a center to provide treatment and job training for drug addicts.

Written on verso: Glue, the final product of a leather factory, makes use of all the scraps.

Written on verso: Shafts on this plastics molding machine, made by the engineering department of a Cholon co-op factory, were made from drive shafts of old U.S. tanks.

Written on verso: Hanoi Leather Shoe Factory on outskirts of the city. Women workers assemble uppers for sports shoes to be exported to Eastern Europe. Soles will be added in Europe.

Written on verso: Hanoi Leather Shoe Factory on outskirts of the city. Women workers assemble uppers for sports shoes to be exported to Eastern Europe. Soles will be added in Europe.

Written on verso: Part of a workshop making leather work gloves for export.

Written on verso: Preparing the pineapple for the freezers at a plant processing the fruit for export.

Written on verso: Traditional irrigation methods.

Written on verso: Traditional irrigation methods.

Written on verso: Near the provincial capital [sic], in central Vietnam south of Danang, the same province as My Lai.

Written on verso: The country must step up food production to provide people with an adequate diet.

Written on verso: One woman has animal fodder on carrying pole.

Written on verso: Taking bamboo water scoops home at lunch time after bailing water from flooded rice fields.

Written on verso: This was the second time, after severe floods wiped out the first planting.

Written on verso: Pham Van Hai State Farm is in one of the new economic zones ringing the city. The land was reclaimed from salt marsh.

Written on verso: In the city's "green belt" - fresh and canned fruits are an important export.

Written on verso: Member of St Vanguard Youth in New Econ. Zone near Saigon.

Written on verso: In the city's surrounding "green belt."

Written on verso: In the city's suburban "green belt." The farm grows pineapples.

Written on verso: In the "green belt" surrounding the city. The land was reclaimed from salt marsh.

Written on verso: Carrying rice seedlings to the fields for transplanting in the Mekong Delta.

Written on verso: Farmer Nam Vinh is raising boa constrictors as breeding stock on his farm just outside the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho. He plans to raise snakes to sell as rat catchers. His prosperous garden is being shown on TV as an example for other farmers in the region.

Written on verso: Frozen pineapple and shrimp are two of Vietnam's main exports.

Written on verso: The barge is made of bamboo.

Written on verso: Tiny fish in plastic bag at his feet will help supplement family diet.

Written on verso: Right, Col. Vo Dong Giang, PRG spokesman. Left, Maj. Nguyen Phuong Nam, PRG press officer.

Written on verso: Giang is number two in the ministry and considered likely to succeed Nguyen Co Thach as foreign minister in the near future.

Written on verso: Thach hope the Bush administration will open the door to better relations between the United States and Vietnam.

Written on attached material: No. 2 -- This gate stands before a pagoda destroyed during a sweep operation through Phu Dien village in June 1973. There were faded slogans in Vietnamese painted alongside the Chinese characters on the gate. One was a widely-quoted sentence from a speech by Ho Chi Minh - "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom".

Written on attached material: no 3 -- The Statue of Buddha still stands amid the rubble of this pagoda in Phu Dien, destroyed during an ARVN operation on the gate outside the pagoda included in Ho Chi Minh's widely quoted sentence -- "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom."

Written on attached material: no. 14 -- With the ever-present mountains behind us, we set out across a paddy dike on our way from Xuyen Tra to Son Trung. The Vietnamese conical hat wards off the sun, and also disguises the foreigner from the eyes of ARVN troops in mountain top outposts.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series. Late City News. Written on verso: Viet Cong.

Written on attached material: no. 15 -- We wind our way across paddy dikes on our way from Xuyen Tra to Son Trung, hiding from the mountain top ARVN outposts under a Vietnamese conical hat. In these villages all traffic moves on narrow trails across the valleys and through the mountains.

Written on attached material: no. 5 -- Phan Van Thu, 20, (right) proudly displays his AK-47 assault rifle. His companion, also a member of our escort party, wears a badge showing he is a member of the Liberation Youth League. Thu's pocket bulges with a round mirror and a thick photo album, filled with photos of family and friends, and with a picture of Ho Chi Minh on the cover.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series. Capitol News.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no. 18 -- With notebooks in one hand and ink pot dangling from a string in the other, a young girl comes home after school. In the afternoons we often heard these school children gathering at a friends house to play games and sing, led by a young man or woman from the village.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no. 10 -- Nguyen Ngoc Tam, 28, was our first official host. He is chairman of the Phu Dien village People's Revolutionary Committee. His wife, whom he married just a few months before we met him, is not around. She is a cadre, too, and works a long day's hike away, so they don't see each other often.

Written on attached material: no. 8 -- Ho Dac Su, 23, smiling, as he did when he placed us under arrest. Su is chairman of the Phu Dien village security committee. He insisted on wearing dark glasses for this portrait to hide his bad right eye, blinded by a shrapnel wound.

Written on attached material: no. 9 -- Our arresting officer, Ho Dac Su, 23, chairman of the Phu Dien village security committee. The white band pinned to his collar is a sign of morning [sic] for his brother, killed in recent fighting. Su himself has been wounded six times, has lost the sight of his right eye and the tips of three finders on his left hand, but not his smile.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series. written on verso: Viet Cong.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no.13 -- Truong Van Tam, 35, was working on a story on the effects of defoliation in Quang Nam province when we met him. He is a correspondent for Liberation Radio, and was hoping to coax an interview from us for his trusty tape recorder. We had to disappoint him on that.

Written on attached material: no. 12 -- When he travels, Truong Van Tam, a correspondent for Liberation Radio, carries with him a typewriter, Sony cassette recorder, and all the other paraphernalia of his job -- on top of this clothing, rations, and such. He ranges through six provinces in central Vietnam covering his beat.

Written on attached material: no. 16 -- These two farmers from Xuyen Tra village were among the many who crowded around, anxious to meet Americans face to face for the first time in their lives, and anxious to tell their stories for the "progressive American people" to hear. The man on the right suffers from partial paralysis caused by shrapnel wounds to his head.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no. 17 -- Our hosts show us the graves of people killed in fighting since the cease-fire. There were four graves at this site, but we were told that there had been "many" people killed in the district.

Written on attached material: no.19 -- A giggling cluster of children in Xuyen Tra village suddenly turned serious as the foreigners asked to photograph them. The boy on the right wears a badge of the liberation children's organization. The boy second from left wears a Nguyen Van Troi badge, presented to young children who are exemplary students and community members.

Written on attached material: no. 22 -- The solemn boy in the foreground was one of a laughing group of children we asked to photograph. He wears a badge of the liberation children's organization.

Written on attached material: no. 20 -- When the foreigners asked to take their picture, this group of children stopped giggling. It was the first time they had seen Americans close up, and the first time Americans had asked to photograph them. The boy on the right wears a badge of the liberation children's organization.

Written on attached material: no. 21 -- What are these children to think when the first Americans they've ever seen close up suddenly ask to take their picture? Only a minute before they were an animated mass of giggles.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series.

Written on verso: Viet Cong panel. Children in Liberated Zone.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no. 24 -- Looking out across the valley fields of Xuyen Tra village, we can see the rugged mountains scarred by bombs, shells, and erosion. In the valley smoke rises from fields where farmers are burning off stubble from the old crop to get ready for the new.

Written on attached material: no. 23 -- A guerilla from our escort meets to local women in the fields of Xuyen Tra village. We spent exhausting hours hiking through the rugged mountains in the background.

Stamped on verso: Viet War: McCombs series.

Written on verso: Viet Cong.

Attached to back of photo: copy of photo printed in newspaper.

Written on attached material: no. 4 -- Wearing the ever-present rubber tire saldals [sic], Phan Van Thu, 20, (right) holds his AK-47 assault rifle. His companion, also a member of our escort party, carries provisions in a makeshift knapsack fashioned from American-made sand bags.

Written on verso: Riches of the PX at a black market stall.

Written on verso: Motor with shaft is "shrimp tail" boat motor minus propeller.

Written on verso: Note Chinese characters on Left sign.

Written on verso: Note Chinese characters as well as Vietnamese on sign.

Written on verso: Private enterprise still performs vital functions even in the country's capital.

Written on verso: Ca Mau is the no.2 town in Minh Hai Province in Mekong Delta.

Written on verso: The black market and the legal free market still flourish in old Saigon.

Written on verso: Titles include math and English.

Written on verso: Private trade has mushroomed in Vietnam under new rules implemented during the past two years.

Written on verso: Village is surrounded by barbed wire fence.

Written on verso: In U Minh District in the Mekong Delta, the rivers and canals reach the front porches of every home. They provide wash water and transportation, and a supply of fish as well.

Written on verso: In the background on the right is the Youth Union center with offices and recreation facilities.

Written on verso: The three writers were attending a conference of Vietnamese and American veteran writers.

Written on verso: The shanties were built out over a section of the river that smelled like a sewer.

Written on verso: Demonstrators thought Vietnamese UN ambassador Ha Van Lau would appear there. The flag is that of the former Saigon regime.

Written on verso: Banner is flag of the defunct Saigon government.

Written on verso: Col. Leach was former commander of 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam.

Written on verso: Mr. Lieu was former head of S. Vietnam National Police and General Commissioner for Overseas Operations of National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, which claims to have fighters inside Vietnam.

Written on verso: James Webb is a Vietnam veteran and author of

Written on verso: Hoang Co Minh was former Saigon navy admiral and leader of a resistance group.

Written on verso: Hoang Co Minh, former South Vietnam Navy admiral, is now Chairman of National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam.

Written on verso: Long coils of incense burn at memorial to (and tomb of) Marshal Le Van Duyet, an 18th Century general who put down domestic revolts and established a Vietnamese protectorate in Cambodia.

Written on back: Pagoda destroyed June '73 ARVN sweep.

Written on verso: An Quang Pagoda was the center of opposition Buddhist activity (in Cholon).

Written on verso: Kmer Buddhist faithful march in a procession to a pagoda on the outskirts of the Mekong Delta town for a celebration marking the end of Buddhist Lent. Many residents of Vietnam's Mekong Delta are ethnic Khmer.

Written on verso: Rural village in Mekong Delta area relatively unaffected by the war.

Written on verso: The area around this Central Highlands city has a good climate for farming.

Written on verso: Eyes on [boat's] bow ward off evil spirits.

Written on verso: The three-wheeled Lambretta is used both as truck and as bus.

Written on verso: The three-wheeled Lambretta is used both as truck and as bus.

Written on verso: The workers are opening new fields for pineapple in the city's "green belt." They use the boat to carry mud, dug from beneath the water of this marshy area, to the raised planting beds they are building.

Written on verso: Planes were left behind by the United States in 1975. Original in color.

Written on verso: Congested streets are becoming a headache in the Vietnamese capital.

Written on verso: Slogan on left calls for greater productivity and economies. Two on the right are part of traffic safety campaign.

Written on verso: Esso signs reads "Use New Esso Extra Motor Oil; Like and Extra Engine in Your Car".

Written on verso: Renamed after the U.S. troop pullout.

Written on verso: Sign reads: "Use New Esso Extra Motor Oil; Like an Extra Engine in Your Car".

Written on verso: Buns and other supplies wait on the sidewalk for the start of the work day.

Sign is glittery, has a happy face, and reads "Smile, God loves you".

Series of three photos.