Title from caption on object: “Atom-Blasted Nagasaki Suburbs”

September 1945

Stanley Troutman

Artist, American, 1917 - 2020

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 21.2 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.393

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper left stamped in brown ink inverted: SEP 17 1945; upper left Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink partially visible; center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: 1070D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ADVANCE FOR RELEASE TO PM'S OF MONDAY, / SEP. 17, 1945. / ATOM-BLASTED NAGASAKI SUBURBS / A DEJECTED JAP PULLS A CART THROUGH / NARROW ROADWAY IN THE SUBURBS OF NAGASAKI, / FOUR MILES FROM THE CITY PROPER. WRECKAGE / IS PILED HIGH ON EITHER SIDE OF HIS PATH, / TESTIFYING TO THE EFFECTS OF THE MIGHTY / BLAST THAT WRECKED 18,000 BUILDINGS, KILLED / 26,000 PEOPLE AND WOUNDED 40,000 OTHERS. / ADVANCE FOR RELEASE TO PM'S OF MONDAY, / SEPT. 17, 1945. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / JM-9/14/45-1205P A-PL / WABC GD NYWS MON TMC PA 168 / LON MEXCITY FOREIGN; by unknown hand, lower center illegible notes in black ink

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