Title from caption on object: “Newsmen Braving Fiery Hell Recorded These Vivid Scenes of the Battle for Hill 875…”

November 22, 1967

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.6 × 25 cm (7 5/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.5 × 27.8 cm (7 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.578

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink; crop marks lower left and lower right in black ink; on verso, center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / NOV 24 1967; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: [reproduction of image] / Newsmen braving fiery hell recorded these / vivid scenes of the battle for Hill 875 raging / this Thanksgiving eve. Here a wounded 173d / Brigade GI is borne through jungle. / —UPI photo by Ward Graham; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: NOV 22 1967; center right printed in black ink perpendicular underlined in red pencil: VIETNAM [circled in red pencil] U. S. CASUALTIES; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 1/9

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