To insure perfect safety, the victims are bound by the hand – Antique Wall Art
![To insure perfect safety, the victims are bound by the hand, [between 1937 and 1943] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8a3b8e3ab142-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with To insure perfect safety, the victims are bound by the hand, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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To insure perfect safety, the victims are bound by the hand
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The caption's grim irony, "To insure perfect safety, the victims are bound by the hand," frames the image as a record of captivity in the Sino-Japanese War, fought from 1937 to 1945. The print comes from the Chinese Military Pictorial Service, a wartime agency that produced photographs to document the conflict and to publicize Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians and soldiers. Pictorial material like this was circulated at home and abroad to build sympathy for China's resistance. Its bound captives also show how the Library of Congress catalogers grouped such images under subjects such as atrocities and Chinese captives, which makes the print useful to researchers studying the war's brutality and its visual propaganda.
| Created / published | [between 1937 and 1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1950. |
| Notes | Title from item. From: Chinese Military Pictorial Service. WAAMD #133. |
| Subjects | Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945--Atrocities--Japanese--China. Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945--Communications--China. Atrocities--Japanese--China--1930-1950. Captives--Chinese--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,139 × 5,101 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207900 |
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