Provenance

Leo Bauby, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

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Inscriptions

on verso, center Acme copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: PLA 736804. . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / GRIM DUTY / PARIS -- TO MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH RED CROSS / FALLS THE GRIM JOB OF IDENTIFYING THE BODIES / OF MURDERED FFI MEN LYING AT THEIR FEET. / PRISONERS OF THE NAZIS IN THE PARISIAN CHATEAU / ST. VINCENNES, THE PATRIOTS WERE DRAGGED OUT IN / BATCHES OF 15, SHOT, AND DUMPED INTO A COMMON / GRAVE. THE BODIES WERE DISINTERRED FOR / IDENTIFICATION AND A DECENT BURIAL. NOTE MASKS / WORN BY SOME OF THE WORKERS. / BU #1A DJH HGS 9/11/44 (RK) / CREDIT LINE (OWI PHOTO FROM ACME); by unknown hand, center right obscured printing notes in orange crayon perpendicular; bottom right in red ink inverted: W.W. II - France Atrocities [circled] / German occupation