Landing at Naples
SubjectPortrait of
Elinor Righter
American, 1912 - 2001
DateMay 1944
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 11in. (21.6 × 27.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Nora Oakes Howard
DescriptionBlack and white photograph of Elinor Righter (Oakes), Ollie Adams [standing], Anne I. Spock, and Eleanor J. Weaver affixed to a sheet of paper. The group is in an American Red Cross military vehicle with Adams and Righter in the front seat and Spock and Weaver in the backseat. The photograph was taken in May 1944 as the group participated in the Allied landing at Naples, Italy by Eleanor (Elly) P. Parker, the assistant to Righter, Spock, and Weaver.
Object number2017.41.73
InscribedHandwritten in black ink on front below image: "Landing at Naples May '44" Handwritten in black ink on pink sticky-note affixed to paper: "Elinor Righter (Oakes)/ Naples, Italy landing/ May 1944/ Photo by Elly Parker/ (Eleanor P. Parker) staff ass’t/ of E. R. and Anne I. Spock &/ Eleanor J. Weaver. (See letter/ from Italy, P. 25 & 43.) Man is/ official photographer, Ollie Adams."
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