And now some more official information on the accident at Chernobyl /... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:And now some more official information on the accident at Chernobyl / Herblock. CALL NUMBER:Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2002:201 [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-11965 (digital file from original item) MEDIUM:1 drawing : ink, graphite and opaque white with paste-on over blue pencil underdrawing ; 56 x 38.5 cm. CREATED/PUBLISHED:1986, c1985. CREATOR: Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist. NOTES: Title from item. Published in the Washington Post, May 6, 1986. Copyright 1985 Herblock. Caption from "Enduring Outrage" exhibit: The disastrous nuclear power plant accident on April 25-26, 1986, at Chernobyl in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, cost lives and released masses of polluted air that endangered the health of thousands and contaminated millions of acres of land. In this cartoon, Herb Block drew a family of skeletons, representing the unverified numbers of people who died immediately, or soon afterward, of radiation sickness. Block included a portrait of President Mikhail Gorbachev and a television set to allude to the failure of the government and media to communicate timely information to their own people and the world. Forms part of: Herbert L. Block Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock, Library of Congress, 2006-2007. SUBJECTS: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl'', Ukraine, 1986. FORMAT: Editorial cartoons 1980-1990. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original item) ppmsca 11965 CARD #:2006682392
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