Provenance

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

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Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: FAMINE IN INDIA / BY LAST WEEK, AN ESTIMATED 1,000,000 PERSONS / HAD DIED OF STARVATION IN INDIA AND, ALTHOUGH / THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY HAS THE / SITUATION UNDER CONTROL, THAT NUMBER WILL / UNDOUBTEDLY BE RAISED BEFORE THE FINAL, TRAGIC / COUNT IS TAKEN. JUST RELEASED, THESE / STARTLING PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN CALCUTTA / AT THE PEAK OF INDIA'S FAMINE IN LATE OCTOBER / WHEN A HOMELESS ARMY OF 100,000 ROAMED THE CITY / DYING IN THE STREETS. / 707429 . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / A BABY'S BLOATED BELLY IS EMPTY OF ALL BUT / PAIN AS SHE SCREAMS FOR FOOD. EVERYWHERE, PIPE-STEM ARMS AND LEGS AND DISTENDED STOMACHS / HAUNTED THAT AUTHORITIES WHO DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH / FOOD TO OFFER. LACK OF COORDINATION BETWEEN / THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND PROVINCIAL AGENCIES / FURTHER PREVENTED SWIFT RELIEF ACTION. / IA / CREDIT LINE (ACME) 12/17/43 (JR); center right stamped in blue ink inverted: [REF.] DEPT. / 12-24 '43 / N.E.A.; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite perpendicular: A71150