5:25 PM, Thursday, May 6, 1937

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 21 × 18.7 cm (8 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2015.137.6

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

International News Photos, Inc. (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, upper left in black ink: 5:25 P.M. / Thursday; on verso, center International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; lower center in graphite circled inverted: 2; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper: An explosion rips the giant dirigible [circled in red ink] and it falls to earth / in flames. Members of the landing crew are shown fleeing / from beneath.; lower center stamped in red ink: Minneapolis Journal Library; lower center stamped in red ink: MAY 8 1937; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: c. lead.; bottom right in blue pencil crossed out with graphite perpendicular: # 3 / 29-

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary