Title from caption on object: “Bevin Hangs in Effigy in DP's Exodus Affair Protest”, September 7, 1947

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 22.6 × 17.1 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.382

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching across recto in white and grey paint; crop marks around perimeter in white paint; lower left Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; across bottom printed in image: [illegible] SEPT. 8) BEVIN HANGS IN EFFIGY IN DP’S EXODUS AFFAIR PROTEST-- An / effigy of Britain’s Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, tied to a pole and / bearing a swastika, is “hanged” by displaced Jews in their camp at / Belsen, Germany, yesterday in protest against the return to German soil / of the refugees who attempted to enter Palestine on the Exodus of 1947. / Above the group is the six-pointed Star of David. Refugees were being / landed at Hamburg today. (APWirephoto via radio from Berlin) gww21338PW1) 47; on verso, upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; center left printed in black ink: JEWISH REFUGEES; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 2 col [underlined] / Effigy / BEI Th [crossed out] Tuesday / BCS; lower left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: AFT-984-BS; lower center stamped in blue ink perpendicular: SEP 9 1947M; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 413-50; lower right circled: 5 in / deep; bottom center stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED / [clock] / SEP-8 1947 PM

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary