Title from caption on object: “Battleship California Hit, Sinking”, December 7, 1941

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet: 16.8 × 21.9 cm (6 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.324

Artists / Makers

Lawrence Thornton (artist) American, active 1940s

United States Navy (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper center stamped in black ink: DEC - 4 1942; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite circled and perpendicular: US-Jap War / Hawaii; center right printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: BATTLESHIP CALIFORNIA HIT, SINKING / STRUCK BY BOTH BOMBS AND AERIAL TORPEDOES, / THE USS CALIFORNIA SETTLES INTO THE MUCK / OF PEARL HARBOR IN THE JAP ATTACK OF DEC. / 7 OF LAST YEAR. CLOUDS OF SMOKE RISE FROM / THE CALIFORNIA AND HER STRICKEN SISTER / SHIPS AND ALL BUT CONCEAL THE HULK OF THE / CAPSIZED USS OKLAHOMA (EXTREME RIGHT). / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM U.S. NAVY / GD 12/2/42; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary