overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
Robert Capa photograph of two soldiers carrying a stretcher with a wounded man
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Photographic print by Robert Capa taken in Tel Aviv in July 1948 as Irgun soldiers, now part of the Israeli Defense Forces, removed their wounded from the beach while under heavy fire. It was published as part of a photojournalistic essay:"Palestine War: Jews Rebellion Against Provisional Government"
Black and white photographic print of an outdoor scene shot from medium distance. On recto is an image of two men carrying one man on a stretcher across the beach in the middle ground. The sea is in the background and in the right foreground is a damaged elevated concrete walkway. On the verso are 3 adhered caption labels and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black marker. back, top, pencil : 6 (encircled) back, bottom left, pencil : RC-25 back, bottom right, pencil : 10,000
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The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman.