Title from caption on object: “’First Soldier’ Takes Command”
September 1939
Artist
Publisher
Unknown 20th Century

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.4 × 32.2 cm (10 × 12 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2018.177.657
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: "First Soldier" Takes Command / [reproduction of image] / Hitler [circled] (facing camera) conferring with army and air leaders on eastern front yesterday. Reich / forces today reported forming great semi-circle to close in on Warsaw (AP Wirephoto); center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: SAVE PHOTO / METAL 90 DAYS; center: SEP 6 - 1939 F-**; center right stamped in red ink perpendicular: THE EVENING BULLETIN / REFERENCE LIBRARY; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 65