Title from caption on object: “Forwarding Address”

September 1945

Stanley Troutman

Associated Names
Stanley Troutman

Artist, American, 1917 - 2020

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of rubble and debris with a wooden sign. The image shows broken pieces of materials scattered across the ground. Among the debris, there is a small wooden sign with an inscription in Japanese script. The setting appears to be outdoors, and the ground is uneven with the fragments covering it. The grayscale tone of the photograph gives it a historical and somber atmosphere.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.2 × 21.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.394

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in black ink inverted: World War II-Japan-Hiroshima & Nagasaki; upper left stamped in red ink inverted: SEP 17 1945; center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: 1073 D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ADVANCE FOR RELEASE TO PM'S OF MONDAY, / SEPT.17, 1945. / FORWARDING ADDRESS / A JAP CIVILIAN EXAMINES SIGN STAND- / ING IN CENTER OF MASS OF RUBBLE THAT ONCE / WAS A HOME IN NAGASAKI, JAP CITY BLASTED / AUGUST 9 BY ATOMIC BOMB. SIGN, LEFT BY / FORMER RESIDENT OF THE HOME, GIVES A FOR- / WARDING ADDRESS, AND SINCE AREA IT OCCUP- / IED WAS IN CENTER OF BOMB EXPLOSION, OWNER / HAD TO GO A LONG WAY TO FIND AN UNDAMAGED / PLACE TO SET UP HOUSEKEEPING. / ADVANCE FOR RELEASE TO PM'S OF MONDAY, / SEPT. 17, 1945. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / JM-9/14/45-1220P A-PL 154 / WA GD NYWS MON TMC PA LON MEXCITY FOREIGN

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