Title from caption on object: “With Forthcoming Tests on the Atom Bomb of Great Interest to U.S. Navy Men...”, March 1946

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17 × 21.3 cm (6 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 18 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.397

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

United States Navy (artist)

ACME Newspictures (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

across top printed in image: SF547-NAGASAKI, JAPAN-3/6/46-With forthcoming tests on the atom bomb of great / interest to U.S. Navy men, these sailors in Japan visit the rubble desert that / once was the great city of Nagasaki. U.S. NAVY PHOTO by ACME TELEPHOTO.; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: Saki 3 x 3 3/4; upper center stamped in red ink: MAR 8 1946; center left Acme copyright stamped in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite circled: Saki / 3 col x 3 3/4; across bottom in black ink: World War II-Japan-Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary