Robert Capa photograph of an elderly stone mason cutting a road for Israeli soldiers

The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman. 

Robert Capa photograph of an elderly stone mason cutting a road for Israeli soldiers 

overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) 

Photographic print by Robert Capa depicting Israeli soldiers waiting for a stone mason to assemble his compressor to cut stones for a new road to Jerusalem in June 1948. It was published as part of a photojournalistic essay: ‘‘A Tale of Two Cities’’, in July 1948 in the London magazine, Illustrated, with text by Irwin Shaw. It records the last hours in Jerusalem before the cease fire, when the city and the mountain road was being bombed and under constant fire. 

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Black and white photographic print of a scene in the countryside outside Jerusalem. On recto is an image of a man in a soldier's uniform and helmet on the left watching a bearded man wearing a helmet and work clothes seated on the right assembling equipment. More machine parts are on the rock and grass covered ground between them. Three men in soldiers uniforms stand in the background. On the verso are 3 adhered caption labels and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black and blue ink. back, top left, blue ink, handwritten : (illegible text) 5. back, top right, pencil : T1555