Title from caption on object: “First Warsaw Siege Picture to Reach U.S.”, September 15, 1939

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

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sheet: 20.2 × 24.8 cm (7 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.318

Artists / Makers

Julien Bryan (artist) American, 1899 - 1974

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary