Title from caption on object: “Students Closely Guarded by National Guardsmen...”
October 4, 1957
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.7 × 22 cm (5 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
sheet: 17.7 × 23.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.454
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top right in red crayon: FILE; across top printed in image: CKP100411-10/4/57-LITTLE ROCK: Negro students closely guarded by national guard- / smen, walk towards their station wagon after leaving Central High School. All was / calm as the students completed their second week of integrated schooling. / UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / mja51695; center right United Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted; center right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: FILED OCT17 1957; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: Blacks- [in blue ink] Schools-Ark / Negroes [crossed out in blue ink] - Education [crossed out in graphite] / Little Rock [crossed out in graphite]