Friday, December 1, 2017

Stuffed Animals, Here & There: London 1945


Boy orphaned in a bombing raid on London holds a stuffed animal, 1945, photo by Toni [Antoinette] Frissell

Frissell said of this picture [via]:  
“I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble...
This photograph was [later] used by IBM to publicize a show in London. The boy grew up to become a truck driver after the war, and walking past the IBM offices, he recognized his picture”.

2 comments:

Bink said...

How sad! I wonder what that stuffed toy was? An elephant without ears?

Fresca said...

An elephant is what I see too.