Title from caption on object: “What Happens When a Bomb Hits Your House”, September 1939

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 18.7 × 23.6 cm (7 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 29.3 cm (8 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.319

Artists / Makers

Julien Bryan (artist) American, 1899 - 1974

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

crop marks around perimeter in black ink and white paint; lower right Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; across bottom printed in image: (NY15 Oct. 7) WARSAW—WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BOMB HITS YOUR HOUSE—A German bomb apparently aimed at a bridge / across the Vistula river during the siege of Warsaw missed its mark and fell next to this apartment / building, breaking the water main and blasting a hole about 30 feet across. Only wall of the building / was left standing from another direct hit of a heavy bomb. This is another of the series of pictures taken / in Warsaw by Julien Bryan, American photographer and lecturer, during his September 7-21 stay in the / besieged city. Bryan reached New York today. (AP Wirephoto) (Eds: Credit to Bryan in caption is MUST); by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 86.8; on verso, top left stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; upper right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: OCT 9 1939 M; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite perpendicular: 339-12; center left in graphite: 4 [illegible] / Bulldog; center in graphite circled: 5 7/16; center right stamped in black ink perpendicular: WARSAW WAR SCENES; center right stamped in blue ink inverted: [RECEIVED] / [clock] / OCT-7 1939 PM

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary