Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center partially visible International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite circled: 4; center left printed in black ink perpendicular and circled in red ink: ATOM BOMB - HIROSHIMA; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: 51046339..WATCH YOUR CREDIT. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO / SLUG (SCHOOL-HIROSHIMA) / WHERE A-BOMB SHOOK WORLD A YEAR AGO / HIROSHIMA, [underlined in red pencil] JAPAN [circled in red pencil] ……. ALMOST [crossed out in graphite] [by unknown hand in graphite: More than] A YEAR AFTER THE FIRST / ATOMIC BOMB EVER LOOSED AGAINST A PEOPLE IN WARFARE / BURST OVER HIROSHIMA, WIPING OUT 60 PER CENT OF THE / CITY, LIFE [by unknown hand in graphite crossed out: in Hiro] GOES ON. [by unknown hand in graphite crossed out: in Hiro after the A-bombed was loosed against the Japanese people]. AT LEAST IT DOES [crossed out in graphite] FOR THESE PUPILS / IN A HIROSHIMA CLASSROOM, THROUGH THE WINDOW OF WHICH / MAY BE SEEN SOME OF THE RUINS OF THE ONCE-PROUD CITY. / BECAUSE OF LACK OF MATERIALS, RECONSTRUCTION HAS NOT / BEEN ATTEMPTED. RUDE SHACKS HAVE SPRUNG UP IN THE / DEVASTATED AREAS AND OCCASIONALLY THERE IS A CLEANUP / CAMPAIGN, DURING WHICH HUNDREDS OF BODIES ARE DUG / OUT OF RUINS. IN ONE CORNER OF THE CITY SUCH A / CAMPAIGN LAST MONTH UNCOVERED 1,000 CORPSES. IT IS / ESTIMATED THAT FROM SIX TO TEN THOUSAND BODIES STILL / ARE BENEATH THE DEBRIS. / W.7.27.46 / PHOTO BY CHARLES ROSECRANS (AC) / SEE ALSO S1046338-340; lower right stamped in blue ink: MINNEAPOLIS / SUNDAY TRIBUNE / PAGE COPY DATE / [by unknown hand in graphite: 2 4 Aug 11, 19]