Title from caption on object: "Coal Miners Pay Tribute in Bond Rally”, May 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 21.5 × 17 cm (8 7/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

sheet: 21.8 × 18.2 cm (8 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.359

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) (publisher) est. 1902

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Inscription

on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: n e c 0 5 8 6 9 / www.historicimages.com; center Hamilton Wright Organization Inc. copyright stamp in red ink; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper: COAL MINERS PAY TRIBUTE IN BOND RALLY [underlined] / CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA (MAY 00, 1945)-----Bituminous coal / miners re-enact Iwo Jima flag raising [underlined in graphite] on a mountain of / coal here in Seventh War Bond Drive ceremonies. Miners / and operators of the bituminous coal industry have / bought over half a billion dollars worth of bonds in all / war loans to-date. / FROM: Hamilton Wright Org. / FOR: BITUMINOUS COAL INSTITUTE / PHOTO GRATIS [underlined]; bottom left stamped in purple ink inverted: REF. DEPT / 5-24 '45 / N.E.A.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: A70899 Flag [illegible]

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary