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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Branch of Service: Army
  • Unit of Service: Strategic Command; 1st Signal Brigade
  • Location of Service: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam
  • Highest Rank: Specialist Five

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Stationed near Tan Son Nhut Air Force Base, Vietnam, Edward Anthony Zipeto typically focused his camera lens on the world around him, rather than taking shots of service buddies or self-portraits. While a handful of photographs depict his work in a military post office, the vast majority show elements of the local landscape that he clearly found intriguing such as a young Vietnamese civilian selling colorful balloons, a vendor’s watermelon stand, and city streets filled with horse drawn buggies, cars, and pedicabs.

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About this Item

Title

  • Edward Anthony Zipeto Collection

Names

  • Zipeto, Edward Anthony
  • Zipeto, Edward

State of Birth

  • MA

Home State

  • MD

Headings

  • -  Zipeto, Edward Anthony
  • -  Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Army.

Repository

  • Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Gender

  • Male

Race

  • White

Status

  • Veteran

Service History

  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975

    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Unit of Service: Strategic Command; 1st Signal Brigade
    • Location of Service: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam
    • Highest Rank: Specialist Five
    • Dates of Service: 1967-1970
    • Entrance into Service: Enlisted
    • Military Status: Veteran

Materials

  • Manuscript: Military papers (orders, personnel/201 files, etc) [6 items] -- Typewritten document (collected 1968 - 1970)
  • Photograph: Original photographic print [70 items] -- Photograph (collected 1969 - 1970)
  • Manuscript: Maps [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected [1969])
  • Manuscript: Clippings [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 10/1967)
  • Manuscript: Printed matter [7 items] -- Typewritten document (collected [1969-1970])

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/96810

Cite as

  • Edward Anthony Zipeto Collection (AFC/2001/001/96810), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. The Veterans History Project Collection includes oral histories along with documentary materials such as original letters, diaries, photographs, and memoirs.

Veterans and interviewers contribute these materials to the Library for scholarly and educational purposes, retaining any copyright they may hold. Therefore, permission must be obtained before using the interview or other materials in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these materials should contact the Veterans History Project for assistance.

As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item from the Library’s collections and for securing any necessary permissions rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Please contact us with questions.

Obtaining Copies of VHP Materials

In order for VHP materials to be duplicated, we must receive written permission from the interviewee for you to obtain a copy of the recording unless the proposed use is limited to personal use, research, or other uses permissible by copyright law. If the interviewee is deceased, their next-of-kin may grant written permission.

Please contact VHP for assistance if you need to contact a veteran for permission to use their materials in exhibition or publication, or if you have received permission from the veteran and need access to high-resolution copies of VHP collection materials.

Citing VHP Materials

Please use the following formats when citing Veterans History Project materials (substituting the appropriate name and collection ID number).

Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Zipeto, Edward Anthony, and Edward Zipeto. Edward Anthony Zipeto Collection. 1967. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.96810/.

APA citation style:

Zipeto, E. A. & Zipeto, E. (1967) Edward Anthony Zipeto Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.96810/.

MLA citation style:

Zipeto, Edward Anthony, and Edward Zipeto. Edward Anthony Zipeto Collection. 1967. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.96810/>.