Series: Visual Materials

Subseries: Personal and portraits
Physical Description: 476 photographs, 106 negatives, and 4 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs that show Chapelle on various assignments throughout her career, including formal portraits of her. The photographs also include images from the posthumous dedication of a memorial plaque to Chapelle in Vietnam.

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Subseries: This Is My Outfit
Physical Description: 264 photographs, 102 negatives, and 24 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by and assembled by Chapelle from various assignments throughout her career for an unpublished book project, This Is My Outfit.

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Subseries: World War II, Pacific Coast region
Physical Description: 595 photographs, 792 negatives, and 30 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle during World War II in the Pacific Ocean region, including images of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Guam. The photographs also include images of the training of female flight nurses.

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Subseries: Military training camps
Physical Description: 2,494 photographs, 2,077 negatives, and 586 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle of military training camps, including United States Marine Corps and United States Army paratroopers.

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Subseries: India, circa 1952
Physical Description: 306 photographs and 787 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in India of village life in 1952, of the Indian Army, and of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

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Subseries: Caribbean Sea region, circa 1950s
Physical Description: 442 photographs, 2,672 negatives, and 690 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the Caribbean Sea region, including images of forces under Fidel Castro in Cuba during the late 1950s, Guantanamo Bay, and the Dominican Republic.

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Subseries: Algeria, 1957
Physical Description: 517 photographs and 877 negatives in 4 boxes 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Algeria during its military unrest, 1957.

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Subseries: Mediterranean Sea region, circa 1950s
Physical Description: 316 photographs, 2,947 negatives, and 1,302 transparencies in 10 boxes 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the Mediterranean Sea region, including images of Turkey, Lebanon during the 1958 crisis, and Jordan.

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Subseries: Hungary and Hungarian protesters, circa 1956
Physical Description: 32 photographs and 453 negatives 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Hungary during the revolution of 1956 and of Hungarian protesters in New York City.

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Subseries: East China Sea and South China Sea, circa 1955
Physical Description: 112 photographs, 1,145 negatives, and 532 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the East China Sea and South China Sea, including images of Taiwan, circa 1955.

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Subseries: Vietnam and Laos, circa 1955-1965
Physical Description: 586 photographs, 4,951 negatives, and 2,258 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Vietnam and Laos, circa 1955-1965. The photographs include images of South Vietnamese paratroopers, of United States military advisors, and of the resistance leader of Bien Hung, Father Hoa (Nguyen Hua Hua).

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Subseries: Miscellaneous
Physical Description: 269 photographs, 1,573 negatives, and 231 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs of miscellaneous subjects made by and collected by Chapelle, including images of her family and others related to various stories throughout her career. The photographs also include unidentified images.

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Subseries: Point Four program, circa 1951-1952
Physical Description: 946 photographs, and 3 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs taken by Chapelle to document the Point Four program, circa 1951-1952. Point Four was a technical assistance program administered by the Technical Cooperation Administration and the United States Department of State that provided agricultural, medical, and economic expertise to other countries. Chapelle documented Point Four activities across the Middle East and South Asia, including Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India. Projects documented include locust mitigation, land settlement, and vaccination, while other photographs depict the customs of local populations. Most of the photographs are contact prints made directly from 35mm or medium format film.

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Subseries: Motion pictures

Untitled interview with Dickey Chapelle by Donald Bruce
Physical Description: Approximately 14 minutes, b/w, sound, 16 mm 
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Chapelle by Councilman Donald Bruce on an unidentified weekly television program in Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes a review of Chapelle's career, honors, and reputation as a war correspondent and photographer; some details of her experiences with Cuba; and vigorously expressed views on Communism and the situations in Vietnam and Algeria.

Profile of Dickey Chapelle on Entertainment Tonight
Physical Description: 30 minutes, sound, b/w and color, 1/2-inch video 
Scope and Content Note: Includes interviews with her brother, Robert Meyer, her biographer, Roberta Ostroff, and author James Michener, who was in Hungary with Chapelle in 1956 covering the flight of refugees. Also interviewed is Marine Captain Philip Fehlen (retired), who was present when Chapelle became the first female war correspondent to die in action. Archival material from the WHS Chapelle collection is used.