Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photographic print of helmeted boy in toy US tank
August 1945
Francis Street and Wylie Avenue, Hill District, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black and white photograph of a boy wearing a helmet in a toy US Army tank. The boy leans over the proper left side of the tank and smiles at the camera. The tank is stationary on a paved driveway adjacent to a brick building. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom left corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the number: [1094.01] and a photographer's stamp.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2014.302.9
