Title from caption on object: “Wounded Marine Helped from Iwo Jima”, February 20, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.4 × 16.3 cm (9 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)

sheet: 25.2 × 17.3 cm (9 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.349

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

United States Marine Corps (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper center illegible stamp in blue ink inverted; center left printed in applied photo paper perpendicular: (NY13-MARCH 1) WOUNDED MARINE [circled in grease pencil] HELPED FROM IWO-- A U.S. MARINE, / A BANDAGE ABOUT A HEAD WOUND RECEIVED IN FIGHTING ON BLOODY IWO / JIMA, IS HELPED ACROSS THE ISLAND'S VOLCANIC ASH TERRAIN TOWARD / A LANDING CRAFT WHICH WILL TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL SHIP. / (APWIREPHOTO FROM MARINE CORPS) (OB52045A-PL) 45; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite inverted and partially obscured: IW[O] / [JIMA]; lower right printed in red ink perpendicular: ES 1049 – 108; bottom right printed in black ink on applied label perpendicular: hat 287

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary