Title from caption on object: "There Was Dancing on Wall Street...”, May 7, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 21.6 × 17.1 cm (8 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 23 × 18.1 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.363

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

ACME Newspictures (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper center stamped in red ink perpendicular: MAY-8 1945; center Acme copyright stamp in black ink; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: NY 482:- THERE WAS DANCING ON WALL STREET ON MAY 7TH / AS NEW YORKERS STAGED CELEBRATION OF VE DAY. FESTIV- / ITIES WERE TOUCHED OFF BY PREMATURE ANNOUNCEMENT BY / ASSOCIATED PRESS THAT THE WAR HAD ENDED IN EUROPE. / ACME TELEPHOTO 5/7/45

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary