Film Negatives
Lee Embree took his film to a camera shop the next day, December 8, to be developed. The camera shop developed Embree's photographs, but refused to return his 4-by-5-inch film negatives. Instead, Embree's negatives were sent to Washington D.C. at the orders of the United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. According to Embree, "The next time I saw one of my photos, it was on the front cover of an Australian magazine."
Embree's negatives were returned to him years after the Pearl Harbor attacks. They were sent to Embree in a brown envelope which was covered in Army postmarks from across the Pacific Ocean.
Some of Embree's historic photographs later appeared in Life Magazine, Time Magazine and other publications. Copies of many of his Pearl Harbor photographs are currently housed at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington D.C.
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