artist: Joseph Rosenthal

title: Battle of Iwo Jima, March 2, 1945

year: 1945

size: 23 3/4" x 18 7/8"

process: vintage gelatin silver print

marks: "Joe Rosenthal" in lower left in negative; "5 MAR DIV" in lower right in negative

exhibitions: "Sacred Spaces and Other Places: The Artists in the Landscape", Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 27, 1993-October 13, 1993

provenance: formerly owned by Col. Tolson A. Smoak, Major Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, 28th Marines, who acquired signatures from the surviving participants in the battle

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