Title from caption on object: “American U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers...”

August 17, 1960

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.1 × 19.5 cm (5 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.6 × 20.7 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.435

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink; by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: ✓; across top printed in image: NXP/RRB1243904-8/17-MOSCOW: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (seated at extreme ri[ght)] / is shown in prisoner’s box during his trial here 8/17. Seated at left is Soviet defens[e] / attorney Mikhail Grinev. Powers pleaded guilty to spying for the U.S. against Russia. T[he] / plea was entered less than two hours after the trial began. (PHOTO FROM OFFICIAL SOVIET / SOURCE) UPI RADIOTELEPHOTO koe; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in blue ink inverted: A91725; upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / neo05894; upper left stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE / SEP 6 - '60 / N. E. A.; by unknown hand, center in orange crayon: Neg / 4 col / Powers

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