Joe Rosenthal Iwo Jima Photograph 1945

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Joe Rosenthal Iwo Jima Photograph 1945

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Joe Rosenthal's “Old Glory Goes Up On Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima” has been called the greatest photograph of all time. It portrays U. S. Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on a remote Pacific island that was the site of the costliest battle in Marine Corps history.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006

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Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006) was an employee of the Associated Press in 1945 when he took this photograph of U. S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. He won the Pulitzer prize for it that same year. Rosenthal later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, retiring in 1981. He made the photograph in this collection from his original negative in 1997 and gave it to fellow photojournalist David Hume Kennerly who donated it to the Briscoe Center. From the guide to the Joe Rosenthal Iwo Ji...

United States. Marines

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