Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks around perimeter in black ink; by unknown hand, upper right in grease pencil perpendicular: 895; across bottom printed in image crossed out in blue ink: There were two flag-raisings on Mount Suribachi, and this photograph (perhaps / never published before) tells their story. A small flag went up first to signal / the fall of Suribachi, highest point on Iwo. But it could not be seen, so a / second, larger flag went up. The second raising became the most famous / photograph of World War Two, and here it appears in the right background / while the camera focuses on the lowering of the first flag, left.; on verso, top left stamped in black ink: FLAGS: IWO JIMA'S / NO CUT FILED / 581 - 104; upper left stamped in red ink: SEP 9 1962M; upper left stamped in red ink: APR 3 1963E; by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink crossed out in graphite: 2 col / =8 / Sunday Book / Page; upper right in blue ink: 2 co- Jima / Mon eve [illegible]; lower center in blue ink crossed out in graphite: [illegible]; bottom center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: There were two flag-raisings on Iwo Jima's [circled in blue ink] Mount Suribachi, / and this photograph from "Strong Men Armed" tells their story. / A small flag went up first to signal Suribachi's fall. It could not / be seen from the base of the mountain, so a larger flag was / raised. The second raising was the one shown in the photograph / that became so famous. In this picture the first flag is about to / be furled as the second one flies.