The Snapshots in Time Collection
Street Scene with Moped and Bicycle Traffic Outside Chi Lan Private School, South Vietnam, 1968 Tet Period
Everyday life continues on a South Vietnamese street during the tumultuous Tet period of 1968. A woman rides a moped past the Chi Lan Private School, its sign advertising English, French, and mathematics tutoring, while a cyclist passes in front of a French colonial-style storefront. Photographs like this, taken by American personnel serving in Vietnam, preserve glimpses of ordinary civilian routine amid one of the war's most pivotal campaigns. Project: 218418