so the other afternoon i needed to do some loosely-charted internet research for a school project. i was digging around online, looking at random archives and library-ish institutions & collections and stumbled across the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech's online presence. Here is their mission statement:
"to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support."
and here's their online stuffs: "over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials. Types of material include documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids". Cool!, but let's get down to the fun stuff. one of their neater online collections is the Vietnam Graffiti Project:

...today we look at some of the CANVAS BUNK elements held within this collection! [images below are details, clickable for fullll scan]


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ANNOYING NB: as their own website sez: The Virtual Vietnam Archive is experiencing periodic access problems. We are actively working to correct these errors. Yes, their website is certainly bootleg right now, but here's the link to search the canvases!