Title from caption on object: “Two Victims of the Hungarian Revolt...”

October 25, 1956

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 13 × 20.3 cm (5 1/8 × 8 in.)
    sheet: 13.8 × 22.9 cm (5 7/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.426

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink, white and grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite circled: 23; upper center in blue ink inverted: A202-B; upper center printed in image inverted: NXP/RVA 1116881-10/29-BUDAPEST: Two victims of the Hungarian revolt lie covered / at the foot of a monument in Parliament Building here. The Hungarian government / pleaded 10/28 with [t]he people to end the revolt, saying in a broadcast, "You have / won." UNITED PRESS RADIOTELEPHOTO rb; by unknown hand, center in orange crayon inverted: 3 col Reg / Victims; lower left in graphite underlined: 42; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: NOV - 7 '56 / N.E.A.

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