Anonymous
Lengthily inscribed portrait of standing boy
1918
Image: 106 x 61 mm; sheet: 111 x 65 mm
Commercially processed gelatin silver print; traces of black album paper on verso
Gift of Peter J. Cohen.
2015.119:28
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in blue ink on recto, on Image: "COLLEGE DEGREE - / ENLISTED ON RED ARMY / SIDE - SPANISH WAR - CAPTURED / HELD PRISONER OF WAR. / SERVED IN WORLD WAR #2 / IN U.S. NAVY. MARRIED 2 / TIMES - 2ND MARRIEGE TO / MEXICAN GIRL IN U.S. / COMMITED SUSIDE SHORTLY / AFTER WORLD #2 (E.W.F. 1950"; date stamped in blue ink on recto, upper right corner: "1918"; inscribed in blue ink on recto, below image: "HOLLIS JENKINS - B.M.T."
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Peter J. Cohen
Summary
Writing and Signs / The Legible Image
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