Title from caption on object: “Jewish Refugees, Part of a Group Disembarked by British Troops from the Transport Ocean Vigour at Hamburg, Germany…”
September 8, 1947
Unknown 20th Century
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.9 × 23 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.379
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; crop marks around perimeter in white and grey paint; by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: 73.5; lower left Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; across bottom printed in image: NY17- [illegible] Jewish refugees, part of a group disembarked by British / troops from the transport Ocean Vigour at Hamburg, Germany, today, stare from barred window / of a rail road coach after arrival at Kuechnitz, near Luebeck, [sic] where they were transferred / to trucks and taken to the Poppendorf detention camp. (APWirephoto via radio from London) / (See wire story) (OB21843pwl) 47; on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied barcode label: AFT-983-BS; upper left stamped in blue ink: SEP 9 1947 M; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite underlined: P1; upper right stamped in black ink inverted: OTHER; by unknown hand, center left in graphite perpendicular: 413-50; center in graphite: 3 col [underlined] / Behind Bars / [illegible] / BCS [?]; center printed in black ink perpendicular: JEWISH REFUGEES; by unknown hand, lower center in grease pencil circled: 4 1/4; bottom left stamped in purple ink: [clock] / SEP - 8 1947 PM