Aug 02, 2006 - Sale 2085

Sale 2085 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
ANONYMOUS THE FIVE SULLIVAN BROTHERS / THEY DID THEIR PART. 1943.
27 1/2x21 1/2 inches. The U.S. Government Printing Office.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds. Framed.
A photomontage in black, white, red and blue of five brothers killed in action while serving on the same ship. As a result of their fate, the Navy instituted a policy that brothers would never serve on the same ship. The story of the Sullivan brothers is the basis for the movie Saving Private Ryan.