Title from caption on object: "Beheading”, October 24, 1943

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 24 × 19.4 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.7 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.360

Artists / Makers

Japanese 20th Century (artist)

International News Photos, Inc. (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching across recto in black ink; on verso, upper center International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: EDITORS; THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS SENT TO YOU FOR USE WITH SERIES / OF STORIES BY RESCUED DOOLITTLE FLIERS, TO BE SENT [TO] YOU / BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE FOR FIRST PUBLICATION / SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH. / LF1017015-WATCH YOUR CREDIT. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS. / SLUG. (BEHEADING) / ALLIED FLIER BEHEADED BY JAP -- / JAPAN......THIS SNAPSHOT, TAKEN BYA [sic] JAP WHO WATCHED, / SHOWS A JAPANESE OFFICER ABOUT TO DELIVER THE BEHEADING / STROKE TO AN ALLIED FLIER WITH HIS SAMURAI SWORD AS / GRINNING JAP SOLDIERS LOOK ON IN BACKGROUND. THIS / PHOTOGRAPH WAS MADE SOMEWHERE IN JAPANESE OCCUPIED / TERRITORY. THERE IS NO CLUE TO THE NATIONALITY OF THE / VICTIM. (SM-9-8-45)

Provenance

Darian Pellicciotti; (sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary