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Soldier examines overturned vehicle

Anonymous

Soldier examines overturned vehicle

1945
Image: 60 x 100 mm; sheet: 71 x 109 mm
Commercially processed gelatin silver print

Gift of Peter J. Cohen.

2015.119:25
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in black ink on verso: "German Vehicles were lined / up like this along all roads / and highways. -- these particular / ones were left behind because they were out of gas. -- All the / German could save were the trees, / as you can see by this photo they / took them off. -- that solider looking / at the overturned vehicle is me. / Italy, May 1945"
Provenance
Peter J. Cohen
Summary
Writing and Signs / The Legible Image
Artist
Department