Title from caption on object: “Racing Off a Landing Boat...”

January 22, 1944

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.3 × 21.2 cm (4 7/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 18 × 22.7 cm (7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.334

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in white paint; crop marks upper center, lower left and lower right in grease pencil; on verso, by unknown hand, along right edge in graphite: War-Italy-Invasion; center left illegible printing notes in graphite; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AP Radiophoto from Signal Corps / RACING OFF a landing boat, American soldiers plunge into water and dash up beach for newest / landing in Italy at Nettuno. Men were disappointed when they landed and met no resistance at first.; center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: JAN 27 1944

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