Photographs from the career of Bill Snead, including work from United Press International, Washington Post, News-Journal, Willmington, Delaware and the Lawrence Journal-World.

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Bill Snead got his start in newspapers as a teen in Lawrence, but his 50-year career took him to places like United Press International, National Geographic and The Washington Post, where he's shown here.

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A young Bill Snead in the darkroom at the Topeka Capital Journal.

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Kansas University basketball coach Phog Allen holds the ball over new recruit Wilt Chamberlain's head in an early practice after Chamberlain arrived at KU in 1955 as a freshman. Chamberlain scored 42 points in his freshman opener against the KU varsity.

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Kansas University basketball freshman recruit Wilt Chamberlain at KU in 1955.

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In the fall of 1955 freshman Wilt Chamberlain put on a Kansas University basketball jersey for the first time. Even before his first collegiate game people could sense the greatness of this slender 7'-2" center dubbed the Big Dipper and Wilt the Stilt. During his two years with the Kansas Jayhawks and his 14 seasons in the NBA he became one of the greatest basketball players of all-time. Chamberlain remains the only NBA player to average over 50 points a game for an entire season and score 100 points in a single game. Because of his abilities several rule changes were enacted including: widening the lane and instituting offensive goaltending. This photograph was taken prior to Chamberlain's first collegiate game at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.

photo by: Bill Snead

Perry Smith, left and Richard "Dick" Eugene Hickock convicted murderers of the Clutter family in western Kansas, walk down the hallway of the Federal Court Building in Topeka as they made their last appeal for their lives. They were hanged on April 14, 1965.

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A Face in the Window — A young girl stares through a clouded bus window during a heavy thunderstorm in Tirana, Albania. When I moved closer to the bus she turned away crying. In 1991, I was with a group of Westerners who were among the first foreigners allowed in the country since World War II. If I were made to choose a favorite photograph, this would be it.

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The 1964 press conference in Philadelphia looked more the interior of a police station than the basement of Constitution Hall. They were surrounded by Philadelphia city officials and policemen. The performed later that evening at Constitution Hall in 1964. Top ticket prices were $5.50 and the upper balcony seats sold for $2.50.

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Photo by Bill Snead--Dewey Chafin holds a couple handfulls of rattle snakes at the Church of the Lord Jesus, in Jolo, West Virginia. Dewey has been "bit" over a hundred times by poisonous snakes but never treated with medicine, only prayer.

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Rain Clouds in Western Kansas-Dark rain clouds looked menacing above three combines that were racing the weather while harvesting a section of wheat near Goodland, Kansas in 1987.

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A nurse connected with Doctors Without Borders works on a small child that her mother, standing left, brought to the only medical tent available for Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

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Outdoor Prayers — A woman prays with her Rosary in her hands in an outdoor Catholic Church service near Shkoder, Albania. Many devout Albanians spent years in prisons for not denouncing their faith in a higher power than the ruling Communist party.

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Stranded on a Mountaintop — Many of the Kurds who were driven from their homes in Iraq by Saddam Hussein's military forces were stranded on the Zagros Mountains that line the border between Iraq and Turkey. Some, like this small group of refugees, stayed near the mountaintops to escape the unsanitary conditions in the large refugee camp halfway down the mountain.

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Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

photo by: Bill Snead

Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

photo by: Bill Snead

Cloistered nuns in Maryland.

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Heartbroken and Helpless — A Kurdish mother holding her sick child wipes away a tear while waiting quietly in a line outside the tent of the lone Kurdish physician in the Isikveren refugee camp. Her young son died before she was able to see the doctor.

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Napalm Wounds — A young boy stands outside his family's makeshift tent in the Isikveren refugee camp. His face has been disfigured from a napalm attack dropped on his village by Iraqi Air Force planes. There were no medical supplies available to treat his wounds.

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Survival of the Fittest — Convoys of trucks loaded with food, pots, and pans — anything that would hold water — would be empty before reaching older refugees camped on the mountains. Younger refugees would jump in the trucks only halfway to their destination and come away with armloads of utensils and bags of food. Many were Iraqi military deserters.

photo by: Bill Snead

Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

photo by: Bill Snead

A blanket clad mother carries her child over a foggy mountain pass on her way to the refugee camp. The man with the tent on his back is returning to Iraq because of the horrible conditions of the camps in Turkey.

photo by: Bill Snead

Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

photo by: Bill Snead

Kurdish refugees in the Isikveren refugee camp. Nearly a million Kurds fled from Iraq to escape government troops bent on their extermination. They were stranded in a mountain range between Iraq and Turkey where nearly a thousand died each day from the lack of water.

photo by: Bill Snead

John F. Kennedy stopped in Kansas City in 1960 to campaign for president. He was surrounded by mostly female fans when he stopped at Truman Corners Shopping Center in Grandview, Mo.

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Rosa Parks

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In 1989, these two coal miners, photographed deep in a mine, refused to join other members of the United Mine Workers when they walked out on strike against the Pittston Coal Coompany in Carbo, Va.

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Sophia Loren and Motion Picture Czar Jack Valenti in a reception room prior to the annual Italian-American dinner in Washington, D.C.

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Brooks Robinson leaps in the air as he runs towards Baltimore Oriole winning pitcher Dave McNally after they beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Baltimore 1-0, sweeping the four game series.

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Joe DiMaggio

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Mother Teresa — Barely 5 feet tall, the religious icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner stood on a box while addressing a prayer breakfast in a Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom. The event was packed with members of Congress and admirers of the saintly nun who had done so much work in Calcutta. She died at 87 in 1997.

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Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist.

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Nelson Mandela dons New York Yankees gear during a U.S. tour in 1990

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The music inside the Church of the Lord Jesus is loud and rhythmic, which inspires many of the worshipers to pick up a snake and dance near the minister's podium.

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Church members lay hands on a newcomer to the Jolo, West Virginia, church. Prayers — some soft, others loud — were said as they moved about the church.

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Organist Lydia Hollins handles a rattle snake during services while Dewey Chafin and his mother, Barbara Elkins, look on. Lydia's mother "snakebit died" during a service over 30 years ago when Lydia was a child.

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The launch of the space shuttle Discovery, the first following the explosion of the Challenger in January, 1986.

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These Romanians living in Timioara got together at the end of the day to have a few laughs and a couple of pops.

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Albanian Confessional — On Easter Sunday, 1991, a woman kneels at an outdoor confessional, talking to a Catholic priest. It preceded one of the first church services held in Albania since World War II. Albania's Communist leaders declared believing in God against the law. Many people who professed a belief in God or possessed religions statues were put in prison and suffered horribly under the hands of their guards.

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A young ballerina adjusts her slipper before joining her fellow dancers at a studio in Topeka, Kansas.

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Nuns work in their onion and herb garden outside the Sucevita Monastery in Northern Romania. It was built in 1583.

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Man carrying lamb, Albania.

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Young Albanian Field Hands — After driving through the agricultural areas of Albania, it became obvious that the majority of the field workers, manning the hoes and shovels were young women sometimes joined by a few older men. The supervisors were males usually watching their efforts on horseback. Their work did not interfere with their sense of humor.

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Forrest Lusk is an Elvis impersonator. For his day job he runs the Downtown Restaurant in Elkhart, Kansas. At sunset, one very warm afternoon, Forrest took his mirror and moved outside to practice his Elvis moves.

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Utica, Kansas High School Class of '93 — These girls standing in a Western Kansas wheat field, Hanneke Hollander, left and Stephanie Walker are the senior class of Utica High School. Stephanie was raised on a farm near Utica and her classmate is an exchange student from Holland. Stephanie's parents didn't want her to be the only senior in school. In 1993 the Utica High chorus was a trio.

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Fashionable Beauty-One of those rare moments when everything works for 1/15th of a second. We're shooting fashion in New York, running out of light, moving to the skyscraper's roof, catching the last bit of illumination on the very last frame at the end of a long day's shooting. In 1978 this shot of model Beverly Lee was chosen the year's best fashion shot in Pictures of the Year Competition.

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A Wilmington, Delaware, fireman radios to headquarters for more help to fight a fire in a Catholic Church on the east side of the city.

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Dolly Parton's "extra" head of hair is illuminated in the spotlights on stage as she performed in an outdoor waterfront theater in Milwaukee.

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Paul McCartney of the Beatles, Philadelphia, PA.1964

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Ringo Starr of the Beatles, Philadelphia, PA.1964

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Beatles, Philadelphia, PA.1964

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John Lennon of the Beatles, Philadelphia, PA.1964

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Former Topeka Capital-Journal photographers Jim Forbes, Jack Kenward, Rod Hanna, Rich Clarkson, Bill Snead, Jim Richardson, Dave Peterson and Jeff Jacobsen during the Richard C. Clarkson Multimedia Gallery dedication festivities at Stauffer-Flint Hall, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012.

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Vietnam Memorial, Washington D.C. Bill Snead/Washington Post

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Machine Gun At Ease — A heavy-duty M60 machine gun rests on the bank of a rice paddy during a rainy-day sweep by South Vietnamese troops in the Delta. Farmers working the paddies were rounded up and searched.

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Photo 13--You could cover lots of ground fast when you got a ride in General Olinto Mark Barsanti's helicopter, when he wasdropping in on his troops at Camp Eagle and beyond in Vietnam. Barsanti was the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles." .It would get interesting when he asked his pilots to drop down to get a closer look, Plus, on the headset, you could hear his comments during the ride. He was.a real gentleman much appreciated by his troops. .

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Last VC in US Embassy- US Military Policemen escort the last probable Viet Cong found inside the U.S. Embassy during the Tet Offensive fighting in Saigon, February, 1968. Most of the American and South Vietnamese troops were positioned outside the city leaving the MP's to battle Viet Cong who had infiltrated the city. The prisoner, holding his U.S. government identification card, was taken to a nearby hospital, escorted to the back of the building and shot by South Vietnamese military policemen

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Vietnam ca.1965

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Winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese population was a slogan often heard during the Vietnamese War. In this case someone in the US Military got the idea that helping Vietnamese get back in the elephant business could possibly move hearts in that direction. UPI editor Dick Oliver got a short ride during an elephant operation in Tra Bong.

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Young mini-skirted Vietnamese women gather at the front door of the Flamingo Bar in Saigon in 1969, where they called out to potential patrons.

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Vietnamese Jockey — A young jockey gets creative with the smoke from his Salem cigarette between races at the Phu To Race Track on the outskirts of Saigon. Racing continued in Vietnam until the 1968 Tet offensive when the racetrack became a command post filled with American tanks artillery and armored personnel carriers.

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Bill Snead on assignment in Vietnam ca.1965

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Old German Baptist Brethren at construction of new meeting house.

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A long, thin line of heavy farm equipment drives past a wheat field as the custom crew goes from one wheat field to another.

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Storm clouds hang low over a wheat field outside of Pratt as a Shughart crew member hustles to beat the rain. The clouds passed after only a heavy sprinkle but dumped more rain farther down the road. It delayed the cutting crew for about an hour as strong winds dried the wheat.

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The sun has set and the combines are running with their headlights as Gale Shughart, Oskaloosa, checks out the 370-acre wheat field his custom crew is cutting in near Pratt. The crew cut its first wheat field June 1 in Oklahoma and will finish harvesting in North Dakota in mid-October. In the fall they'll cut corn and soybeans.

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The setting sun silhouettes John Shughart, 14, as he drives a $200,000 combine through a wheat field near Pratt. Cutting wheat is like cutting a really big lawn, Shugart said. Corn has replaced wheat as Kansas' leading crop.

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On wheat harvest in Kansas.

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Photographs from Bill Snead's trip to Vietnam in 2000.

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Photographs from Bill Snead's trip to Vietnam in 2000.

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Photographs from Bill Snead's trip to Vietnam in 2000.

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Photographs from Bill Snead's trip to Vietnam in 2000.

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Flint Hills - Cattle trucks

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Bill Snead at home with three of his nearly 100 photos that wll be on exhibit October 20-November 30 at the Lawrence Arts Center. The reception for Bill Snead Photographs: The First Fifty Years will begin October 20 at 7 p.m.

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Bill Snead inside Ingredients Restaurant at his retropective photo show.

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A portion of a herd of 290 wild mares heads back out to pasture after spending part of the day in sorting pens at the Vestring Ranch in Greenwood County's Flint Hills. They are part of 2000 head of wild horses grazing on the ranch under the control of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an are of the Interior Department.

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Two Old German Baptist Brethren ministers took a break from the work detail to watch the proceedings during construction of the new meeting house. Alva Riffey, 90, a retired cabinet maker from the Garnett area, left, had earlier been cutting lumber on the rip-saw. William Jamison, 86, traveled from Quinter to volunteer his services.

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Danell Barnhart, 10 holds her eight-month-old sister Christa while she took a breather from playing King Base. Danell and her friends took turns holding the baby while her mother helped prepare food during the meeting house construction.

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If you had a good seat, watching the construction proceedings was almost riveting, according to the expressions on the faces of, left to right, Derek Knaus, Marvin Bauman and Ashton Heck.

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Now you see the rafters, soon you won't could be the slogan for the men who were rapidly applying the sheet rock to the walls and ceilings of the sanctuary of the new Old German Baptist Brethren meeting house near Garnett. The average installation time was usually less than a minute. Men on the floor with long sticks helped anchor the sheets of plaster while the nails and screws were driven.

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Bill Snead/Journal-World Photos.WITH A LIGHT RAIN FALLING a herd of young steers heads through the lush greenery of the Flint Hills on their way to the cattle pens at Chase CountyÕs Z Bar Ranch. Born in Mexico and wintered in Texas the cattle spent the last 90 days in Flint Hills. Their next stop is a feedlot in Greeley, Colorado.

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Dang Xuan Kieu is part of VietnamÕs military past that President Clinton referred to in a speech this weekend in Hanoi. Kieu, a former captain in VietnamÕs communist army, brought out his old uniform for his American guests last month. Kieu joined the Viet Minh in 1954 at the age of 27 at fought at Dien Bien Phu. He retired in 1988 and lives a few miles north of Dien Bien Phu.

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A few bricks prop a blackened pot above an fire in the kitchen as a member of the Oh family tends to her cooking in a Black Tai village. The openings between the wallboards serve as ventilation.