Title from caption on object: “Where A-Bomb Shook World a Year Ago”

July 1946

Charles D. Rosecrans

Associated Names
Charles D. Rosecrans

Artist, American, 1920 - 1950

International News Photos, Inc.

Publisher

This is a photograph of a classroom setting in a damaged building. The photograph depicts a classroom filled with young students seated at wooden desks, attending a lesson. The room is noticeably worn, with large openings where windows would typically be, allowing a view of the buildings and landscape outside. The outer scene shows a mix of urban buildings and open sky. The inside of the classroom reveals exposed concrete and unfinished surfaces, with two women standing near the window area. Each of the students is focused, some looking forward, while others seem engaged with their work on the desks. The atmosphere is one of resilience and adaptation, suggesting a setting where education continues amidst challenging conditions.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 18.5 × 23.3 cm (7 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.398

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center partially visible International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite circled: 4; center left printed in black ink perpendicular and circled in red ink: ATOM BOMB - HIROSHIMA; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: 51046339..WATCH YOUR CREDIT. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO / SLUG (SCHOOL-HIROSHIMA) / WHERE A-BOMB SHOOK WORLD A YEAR AGO / HIROSHIMA, [underlined in red pencil] JAPAN [circled in red pencil] ……. ALMOST [crossed out in graphite] [by unknown hand in graphite: More than] A YEAR AFTER THE FIRST / ATOMIC BOMB EVER LOOSED AGAINST A PEOPLE IN WARFARE / BURST OVER HIROSHIMA, WIPING OUT 60 PER CENT OF THE / CITY, LIFE [by unknown hand in graphite crossed out: in Hiro] GOES ON. [by unknown hand in graphite crossed out: in Hiro after the A-bombed was loosed against the Japanese people]. AT LEAST IT DOES [crossed out in graphite] FOR THESE PUPILS / IN A HIROSHIMA CLASSROOM, THROUGH THE WINDOW OF WHICH / MAY BE SEEN SOME OF THE RUINS OF THE ONCE-PROUD CITY. / BECAUSE OF LACK OF MATERIALS, RECONSTRUCTION HAS NOT / BEEN ATTEMPTED. RUDE SHACKS HAVE SPRUNG UP IN THE / DEVASTATED AREAS AND OCCASIONALLY THERE IS A CLEANUP / CAMPAIGN, DURING WHICH HUNDREDS OF BODIES ARE DUG / OUT OF RUINS. IN ONE CORNER OF THE CITY SUCH A / CAMPAIGN LAST MONTH UNCOVERED 1,000 CORPSES. IT IS / ESTIMATED THAT FROM SIX TO TEN THOUSAND BODIES STILL / ARE BENEATH THE DEBRIS. / W.7.27.46 / PHOTO BY CHARLES ROSECRANS (AC) / SEE ALSO S1046338-340; lower right stamped in blue ink: MINNEAPOLIS / SUNDAY TRIBUNE / PAGE COPY DATE / [by unknown hand in graphite: 2 4 Aug 11, 19]

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