[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]
Photograph
[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 33.1 x 26.5 cm (visible)
Frame: 46 x 38 cm
Gift of Jon L. Schumacher in memory of Howard A. Schumacher, 2006
2006.0166.0001
Inscriptions recto (ink): To Hod Schumacher in remembrance of great fighting Marines at Iwo Jima [signature] Joe Rosenthal A.P.
recto (ink): [signatures] Ira H. Hayes Pfc., USMC / John H. Bradley
Ph. M2/C [?] U.S. Navy / Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon U.S.M.C.
verso, note taped to brown paper backing of frame (ink): Joe Rosenthal - friend of H.A. Schumacher shot this picture of the 2nd Flag to be placed on Iwo Jima - the first having been destroyed. Joe climed to the top of the hill under fire to take this picture. All signatures are original.
[There are four newsprint clippings also taped to the brown paper backing of the frame]
1. Obituary of Rene A. Gagnon, 10/12/79 "Flag Raiser at Iwo Jima Buried in Arlington Plot"
2. Obituary of John Bradley, Time Magazine, January 1994
3. "Japanese, Americans unite to pay respects at Iwo Jima, February 19, 1994
4. [untitled article about the famous Rosenthal photograph]
recto (ink): [signatures] Ira H. Hayes Pfc., USMC / John H. Bradley
Ph. M2/C [?] U.S. Navy / Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon U.S.M.C.
verso, note taped to brown paper backing of frame (ink): Joe Rosenthal - friend of H.A. Schumacher shot this picture of the 2nd Flag to be placed on Iwo Jima - the first having been destroyed. Joe climed to the top of the hill under fire to take this picture. All signatures are original.
[There are four newsprint clippings also taped to the brown paper backing of the frame]
1. Obituary of Rene A. Gagnon, 10/12/79 "Flag Raiser at Iwo Jima Buried in Arlington Plot"
2. Obituary of John Bradley, Time Magazine, January 1994
3. "Japanese, Americans unite to pay respects at Iwo Jima, February 19, 1994
4. [untitled article about the famous Rosenthal photograph]
