Joe Rosenthal
Over the Top — American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima

Over the Top — American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima

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Over the Top — American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima
Over the Top — American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima
ArtistAmerican, 1911–2006
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Over the Top — American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima
DateFebruary 19, 1945, printed February 23, 1945
PlaceJapan
MediumGelatin silver print with applied ink
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in. (19.7 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (20.6 × 29.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 3/8 × 20 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (41.7 × 51.8 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Richard S. and Dodie Otey Jackson in honor of Ira J. Jackson, M.D., and his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II
Object number2009.469
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Photokunst, Friday Harbor, Washington]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
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
Unsigned
See TMS image and Accession File for complete copy of marks on verso sheet.

Four newspaper captions attached to verso:

" 'OUR VICTORY IS BUT HALF WON' / "We must work to finish the war. ... / ... President Truman on V-E Day."

"FEBRUARY 20 / MARINES FIGHT WAY TO AIRFIELD ON IWO ISLE: / WIN 2 1/4 MILE BEACHLAND ... "

"BATTLE OF IWO - Iwo Jima, a tiny island in the Pacific, was invaded by the / Fourth and Fifth Marine Division ... "

"FIRST WAVE / ... / Within min- / utes they were / pinned down; within / a day 25 per cent / were dead or / wounded."

Typed caption on verso: "FOURTH DIVISION MARINES DASH FROM LANDING CRAFT, DRAGGING EQUIPMENT, WHILE / OTHERS GO OVER THE TOP OF A SAND DUNE AS THEY HIT THE BEACH OF IWO JIMA / 2/23/45"

Numerous stamps with date and publication that printed this image

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