Title from caption on object: "Collecting Bread Ration”
December 1945
Artist, Irish, 1919 - 1970
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.6 × 21.3 cm (6 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.364
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks and retouching across recto in black ink and grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 3 col / 7 PM; upper center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted and partially visible; center printed in black ink on applied paper: 4848-D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / (EDS: THIS IS ONE OF A SET OF SIX PICTURES. SEE / MASTER CAPTION 4842-D) / [by unknown hand in blue crayon: Food Germany] COLLECTING BREAD RATION / WHILE SHOP ASSISTANT CUTS OUT THE NECESSARY / COUPONS, MRS. CHARLES WEINELT, HOLDING CHRISTEL, / 2, AND WITH 11-YEAR-OLD DORIS BY HER SIDE, / COLLECTS HER DAILY RATION OF BREAD--TWO LOAVES. / OTHER BERLINERS WAIT TO GET THEIR RATION. / (EDS: THIS IS ONE OF A SET OF SIX PICTURES. SEE / MASTER CAPTION 4842-D) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / PJM-12/17/45/1139A-STF JP 144 / WA LIST-NY MATS-TIME INC-PA-FOREIGN DESK; center right stamped in purple ink on applied paper: DEC 27 1945; by unknown hand, center right in black ink perpendicular: [illegible] / 787 [crossed out] 783 [crossed out in graphite]; center right in graphite perpendicular: 781