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Identification and Creation

Object Number
47.2002
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Untitled (USS Princeton, irreparably damaged during a Japanese air attack in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, is torpedoed and sunk by American forces after all hands had abandoned ship)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 24, 1944
Places
Creation Place: Southeast Asia, Philippines
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/100189

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.7 x 35.1 cm (10 1/2 x 13 13/16 in.)
sheet: 28 x 36.4 cm (11 x 14 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, TR, black pencil: 60 [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, TR, graphite: Ill. p. 70, USN War Photographs [underlined], Steichen, ed.
    USS Princeton explodes, then sinks. Oct 24, 1944
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: rotated 90 degrees: [illegible word] 47305
  • inscription: recto, BL, BR and TLcorners, orange pencil: printer's marks

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number
47.2002
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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