Obadiah "Obie" Newcomb V, USMCR
Blood Plasma and Whole Blood — Navy Doctors and Corpsmen Treat Marines on Iwo Jima

Blood Plasma and Whole Blood — Navy Doctors and Corpsmen Treat Marines on Iwo Jima

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Blood Plasma and Whole Blood — Navy Doctors and Corpsmen Treat Marines on Iwo Jima
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Blood Plasma and Whole Blood — Navy Doctors and Corpsmen Treat Marines on Iwo Jima
Date1945
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. (27.1 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 14 in. (28.4 × 35.6 cm)
Frame (outer): 18 3/8 × 22 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (46.7 × 56.9 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Barbara Joynt King in honor of Kenneth Richards Joynt LTJG USN, for his service at Omaha Beach with the 7th Naval Beach Battalion (LCI #84) June 6-July 4, 1944, and on the USS Sevier (APA-233) at Iwo Jima, March 14-20, 1945
Object number2005.357
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceEstate of Tom Maloney; [Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso upper right: "Ill. p.58, USN War Photographer, Steichen, ed. / Photo by Newcomb, USMCR / Iwo Jima / 850."

Various marks on verso: "47", "MC.110320", "P-45", "X"

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