Title from caption on object: “Caught by the Camera in Act of Posting Communist Propaganda...”, May 1950

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 17.1 × 21 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 17.9 × 22.5 cm (7 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.424

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

ACME Newspictures (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

retouching across recto in black ink; crop marks top center and center left in orange crayon; across bottom printed in image: NY423-5/16- BERLIN: Caught by the camera in act of posting Communist propaganda in the western / zone, one youth runs as other hides face to prevent identification by the police. Posters were / part of the propaganda being illegally distributed in the western area to boom the Communist / rally set for 5/27-30. ACME TELEPHOTO.; on verso, by unknown hand, center right in blue crayon perpendicular: A795; lower right stamped in red ink: CLEVELAND PRESS / MAY 17 1950 / REFERENCE DEPT.

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary