Title from caption on object: “Battleship California Hit, Sinking”

December 7, 1941

Lawrence Thornton

Artist, American, active 1940s

United States Navy

Artist

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 16.8 × 21.9 cm (6 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.324

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center stamped in black ink: DEC - 4 1942; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite circled and perpendicular: US-Jap War / Hawaii; center right printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: BATTLESHIP CALIFORNIA HIT, SINKING / STRUCK BY BOTH BOMBS AND AERIAL TORPEDOES, / THE USS CALIFORNIA SETTLES INTO THE MUCK / OF PEARL HARBOR IN THE JAP ATTACK OF DEC. / 7 OF LAST YEAR. CLOUDS OF SMOKE RISE FROM / THE CALIFORNIA AND HER STRICKEN SISTER / SHIPS AND ALL BUT CONCEAL THE HULK OF THE / CAPSIZED USS OKLAHOMA (EXTREME RIGHT). / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM U.S. NAVY / GD 12/2/42; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink

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