Title from caption on object: “With Forthcoming Tests on the Atom Bomb of Great Interest to U.S. Navy Men...”
March 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17 × 21.3 cm (6 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 18 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.397
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
across top printed in image: SF547-NAGASAKI, JAPAN-3/6/46-With forthcoming tests on the atom bomb of great / interest to U.S. Navy men, these sailors in Japan visit the rubble desert that / once was the great city of Nagasaki. U.S. NAVY PHOTO by ACME TELEPHOTO.; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: Saki 3 x 3 3/4; upper center stamped in red ink: MAR 8 1946; center left Acme copyright stamped in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite circled: Saki / 3 col x 3 3/4; across bottom in black ink: World War II-Japan-Hiroshima & Nagasaki