Gremlin Tackles Pile Driver
Photograph
Gremlin Tackles Pile Driver
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0269
Inscriptions recto (printed logo): USMC
typed in blue ink on verso, BC: GREMLIN TACKLES PILE DRIVER----A Marine Corps engineer \ unit has its hazards without being plagued by gremlins. \ Her's [sic] one trying to hinder operations of a pile driver \ during construction of a bridge somewhere in the South \ Pacific. This local species of bug crawled into the \ camera and parked on the film just as the shot was made.
Hdqtrs. No: 63,237 WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST. LIST STOCK OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
inscribed in black ink under typewritten text, BC: T/SGT. GLENN A. FITZGERALD
[verso digitally reproduced in media record]
typed in blue ink on verso, BC: GREMLIN TACKLES PILE DRIVER----A Marine Corps engineer \ unit has its hazards without being plagued by gremlins. \ Her's [sic] one trying to hinder operations of a pile driver \ during construction of a bridge somewhere in the South \ Pacific. This local species of bug crawled into the \ camera and parked on the film just as the shot was made.
Hdqtrs. No: 63,237 WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST. LIST STOCK OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
inscribed in black ink under typewritten text, BC: T/SGT. GLENN A. FITZGERALD
[verso digitally reproduced in media record]
