Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks around perimeter in black ink; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 68.5; lower left Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; on verso, top left stamped in black ink: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER; center left stamped in blue ink: MAY 2 1944 E; by unknown hand, center left in graphite: 459-240; center: 3 col / page + 1 / p. 2 / [illegible]; center right circled: 4 1/16; lower center printed in applied photo paper inverted: (NY19-MAY 1) FILAN TARAWA PICTURE TAKES PULITZER PRIZE--THIS PHOTO, / ENTITLED 'TARAWA ISLAND,' AND TAKEN BY FRANK FILAN, ASSOCIATED / PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER ON ASSIGNMENT TO THE WARTIME STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC / POOL, GAINED FOR HIM ONE OF TWO PULITZER PRIZES AWARDED FOR NEWS / PHOTOGRAPHY. IT SHOWS DEAD JAPS STREWN ABOUT A BLASTED JAPANESE / PILLBOX ON TARAWA ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC AFTER INVASION OF / THE ISLAND BY U.S. MARINES. (EDITORS: THIS PHOTO WAS TRANSMITTED BY / (APWIREPHOTO NOV. 29, 1943) (APWIREPHOTO) (OB21820FLS-FX) 1944; lower right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED / [clock] / MAY 2 1944 AM; bottom right stamped in black ink perpendicular: Other