Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top center in black ink: 2 1/2 COL. x 7” DAILY; top right in graphite crossed out: 800; crop marks upper left and upper right in black ink; retouching across upper center in grey paint; vertical along left edge printed in image: NY-70..4/5/51.. NEW YORK... JULIUS ROSENBERG, CONVICTED ATOMIC SPY, HOLDS HIS HEAD ERECT / AS HE ENTERS FEDERAL COURT TODAY TO HEAR HIS SENTENCE. ANOTHER PRISONER SHACKLED TO / ROSENBERG HIDES HIS FACE FROM THE CAMERA. ROSENBERG WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH, AS WAS HIS / WIFE ETHEL. DATE OF EXECUTION WAS SET FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 21. THE THIRD CONVICTED SPY, / MORTON SOBELL, WAS NOT SENTENCED..INP SOUND PHOTO BY FRANK JURKOSKI...TIME..............; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 6 col x 7” / 6 1/2; upper center printed in black ink underlined in red crayon: JULIUS ROSENBERG; center partially visible International News Photos copyright stamp in blue ink; by unknown hand, center in black ink on applied newspaper: C / JULIUS; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: APR 6 - 1951; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / [cut off] her husband, / [cut off] secrets to Russian / [cut off] citizens con- / [cut off] although others / have been executed as traitors. Court denounced their crimes as worse / than murder. Rosenberg [underlined in red pencil] enters court shackled to another prisoner / who hides his face. / —International News Soundphoto; center right stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / APR-6 1951