Provenance

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

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Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black, gray, and white paint; crop marks around perimeter in black ink and white paint; on verso, top left printed in black ink: WAR EUROPEAN 1939 WARSAW; top right stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 33942; upper left stamped in blue ink: OCT 10 1939 E; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite circled: #5; upper right in graphite: 7 1/4" deep; center left stamped in blue ink: RECEIVED / [clock] / OCT-9 1939 AM; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 3 col / pp 1st ED [underlined]; lower center printed in applied photo paper inverted: (NY14 Oct. 7) FIRST WARSAW SIEGE PICTURE TO REACH U.S.--Fourteen were killed Sept. 15 / in collapse of this apartment in Novo Brodno, Warsaw suburb, when German line was less / than mile away. People are shown trying to dig out bodies after bomb fell. This / picture was made by Julien Bryan, lecturer, during September 7-21 stay in Warsaw after / government had fled. Bryan arrived in New York today on SS Bergensfjord. He left / Poland via Koenigsberg, East Prussia, then went to Riga and flew to Stockholm to / catch boat. (AP Wirephoto) (Editors: Credit to Bryan in caption is MUST. Other of / his pictures will follow) (71500jb) 1939