Title from caption on object: “Aiding a Comrade in Arms”, February 20, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.7 × 19.2 cm (9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

sheet: 24.8 × 20.6 cm (9 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.348

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

United States Marine Corps (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

crop marks top left and top right in black ink; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center printing notes in grease pencil; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AIDING A COMRADE IN ARMS–A 5th Division marine [circled in graphite] badly shocked when / a Jap mortar shell hit near him on the front line on Iwo Jima, is helped toward the / rear lines by two comrades. / (Associated Press Wirephoto from U.S. Marine Corps.); center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: MAR 5–1945; center right obscured stamp in blue ink; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: wounded; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted; lower right printed in red ink perpendicular: ES 1049 – 107; lower right stamped in purple ink: PIX PAGE; bottom right printed in black ink on applied label perpendicular: hat 285

Provenance

(sale, Henry Yee, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary