Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / neny18264; upper left stamped in blue ink inverted: MAR 6 - '53; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite inverted: A7881; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: 1021202 . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / SEES SELF WITH PRESIDENT / NEW YORK:- FIVE-YEAR-OLD VINCENT GIARDINA [underlined] / POINTS AT HIS SISTER SUSANNA, [underlined] 6, ON THE / TELEVISION [underlined in graphite] SCREEN IN THE GIARDINA HOME, / MAR. 1, AS SHE SITS BESIDE HIM, WATCHING / HERSELF APPEAR WITH PRESIDENT EISENHOWER / TO OPEN THE 1953 RED CROSS APPEAL FOR / $93,000,000. THE CHILDREN'S PARENTS, MR. [underlined] / AND MRS. WILLIAM GIARDINA, [underlined] LOOK OVER THE / SHOULDERS OF THE SISTER AND BROTHER. THE / FILM WHICH APPEARED ON TELEVISION WAS MADE / IN WASHINGTON TEN DAYS BEFORE. SUSANNA IS / A VICTIM OF MEDITERRANEAN ANEMIA, AND NEEDS / PERIODIC TRANSFUSIONS TO STAY ALIVE. SHE HAS HAD 150 TRANSFUSIONS AND LEADS A NORMAL / LIFE. / NY-1-2 MGS SD / CREDIT (UNITED PRESS PHOTO) 3/1/53 (DB); bottom center partially visible United Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted