Title from caption on object: “First Victim”, December 1941

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 15.3 × 20.2 cm (6 × 7 15/16 in.)

sheet: 16.7 × 21.6 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.329

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

International News Photos, Inc. (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

edit mark center left in black ink; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 4; center left in graphite perpendicular: First Victim. Pasay, near the city of / Manila, was one of the first districts / in P.I. to receive the baptism of Japanese / aerial assault. Several houses were / destroyed. Here an old woman lost her / life.; center International News Photos copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; center right printed in black ink perpendicular underlined in red pencil: WAR-2ND WORLD PHILLIPPINES [sic] / DEVASTATION PASAY / NEAR MANILA; lower right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / MAR 31 1942

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary