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“Helena” Survivors,

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions (Object): 507 x 405 mm (20 x 15.9 in.)

Dimension notes: object dimensions are for board

Title printed on board below image; printed on board below lower right corner of image: “OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH, GRAFLEX-MADE”

Edition: Photographs made as WWII documentation and/or propaganda. This edition of prints on boards may have been distributed by the U.S. Government, or later as advertising for Graflex cameras. The prints in this group comprise only part of the series (the dealer from whom the donor selected and purchased them had more at the time).

Accession number: 1998.2.13

Gift of Robert C. Lancefield (BA Wesleyan 1982, MA 1993, PhD 2005; DAC Registrar of Collections 1994–2019, Manager of Museum Information Services 1999–2019), 1998

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Purchased by the donor from a dealer in Providence, RI, ca. 1994–1995.

Work Type: photograph

Related Works: See other prints from this series, DAC 1998.2.1 – 1998.2.14.

Keywords: Click a term to find other records with the same keyword.

• marine views
• propaganda
• world wars
• military
• American Studies
• World War II
• war

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