Title from caption on object: “Jewish Youths Crowd Shipboard Cage”, August 26, 1947

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.8 × 23.8 cm (7 × 9 3/8 in.)

sheet: 20.6 × 25.5 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.378

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

crop marks upper left in black ink; crop marks around perimeter in white paint; vertical along right edge printed in image: (NY7-Sept. 2) JEWISH YOUTHS CROWD SHIPBOARD CAGE—Jewish youths, among / about 4,400 Jews being transported to Hamburg, Germany, aboard three British / ships, crowd a forward iron cage on deck of one of the vessels at Gibraltar / Aug. 26. Jews were those who sailed from a Mediterranean port for Palestine / in July but were prevented from landing there. (APWirephoto) (OB307001on) 47; by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: 72.5; lower right Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied barcode label: AFL-021-BS; upper center stamped in black ink: REFUGEES; upper center stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED / [clock] / SEP 2 1947 AM; upper center stamped in blue ink: SEP 3 1947 M; by unknown hand, center left in graphite inverted: 413-50; center left: 3 col / [illegible printing notes]; lower center circled: 5-days

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary