Provenance

American Education Publications, Middletown, CT. Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top center in graphite: 44; on verso, top left stamped in black ink: CLASSIFICATION [by unknown hand in graphite: (H) Germany-Berlin] / DATE RECEIVED [by unknown hand in graphite: 8/21/61] / CREDIT [by unknown hand in graphite: UPI] / PROPERTY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION / PUBLICATIONS INC., MIDDLETOWN CONN.; by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: 152-08; top right stamped in black ink: PUBLICATION ISSUE DATE; upper left UPI copyright stamp in black ink inverted; upper center stamped in black ink: KILL-SAVE PHOTO; by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: Today's Geography 1964 / cut killed 5164 / CE 2 9/18/61 / Today's Geog. 1962; upper right in graphite: Todays / Geog. / [illegible] / 1962 / p. 23 / # 90.057; center left partially visible Western University stamp in purple ink; center printed in purple ink on applied paper: FRK 1292581. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / BARRICADE / BERLIN: Grim-faced East German workers, under watchful / eyes of Communist police, erect a high concrete wall at / a sector border near Potzdamer [sic] Platz early August 18th. / Five truckloads of bricklayers and laborers drove into / the huge square during the night and built a concrete / barrier 150 feet long, five feet high, and three feet / thick. / NX MGS / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO) 8/21/61 rpl / ORIGINAL OF RADIOTELEPHOTO PREVIOUSLY SERVICED; by unknown hand, lower right in blue ink circled: 85; lower right in graphite: %; bottom left in black ink inverted and crossed out in red ink: 63759