Inscription
on verso, bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: CAUTION! WATCH FOR RELEASE DATE! [underlined] / AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / F-9957 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, June 4, with Leonard / Pratt's Taipei APN story on Taiwan.) / PHOTOGRAPHED BY HORST FAAS / THE SHIPBREAKERS / Taiwan's children are not required to / attend school -- many go to work as soon / as they're old enough to help with a cut- / ting torch in a steelyard. Here, a steel- / cutter stands by with his torch, while a / young boy takes a hand with the job in the / world's largest shipbreaking yard at Kao / Hsiung in southern Taiwan. The yard / breaks up nearly 200 large oceangoing / ships a year. / jb-5/17/72 sil235
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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