Safe!
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Safe!
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto C: 10421
printed in ink on verso: 10421 W-[illegible]["illegible" cancelled] inscribed in black ink: SUR-4 ["4" cancelled] inscribed in pencil: 8/
printed in ink on verso: SAFE!/
One of the most dramatic photographs of the submarine campaign/ off the Atlantic Coast is this entirely unposed Official Navy picture of a/ young Naval Officer carrying a little girl ashore from a U. A. destroyer./ The child spent 37 hours in an open lifeboat in very rough weather afer her/ ship was sunk by a German underseas raider, and one can almost read her thoughts/ as she realizes she is safe in the arms of the officer./
RELEASED OFFICIAL NAVY PHOTOGRAPH/
If Published/
Credit line must read/
OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH/
printed in ink on verso: 10421 W-[illegible]["illegible" cancelled] inscribed in black ink: SUR-4 ["4" cancelled] inscribed in pencil: 8/
printed in ink on verso: SAFE!/
One of the most dramatic photographs of the submarine campaign/ off the Atlantic Coast is this entirely unposed Official Navy picture of a/ young Naval Officer carrying a little girl ashore from a U. A. destroyer./ The child spent 37 hours in an open lifeboat in very rough weather afer her/ ship was sunk by a German underseas raider, and one can almost read her thoughts/ as she realizes she is safe in the arms of the officer./
RELEASED OFFICIAL NAVY PHOTOGRAPH/
If Published/
Credit line must read/
OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH/
