Title from caption on object: “Martin Luther King's Funeral”
April 9, 1968
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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: 16.6 × 23.9 cm (6 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.474
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in red crayon perpendicular: 5 [?]; center left in red ink perpendicular: 2; center Keystone Press stamp in red ink; center right printed in blue ink inverted: KSC 23557; across bottom printed in black ink on applied paper: MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FUNERAL / Funeral service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta. Dr. King's / successor as President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, / RALPH ABERNATHY eulogizing Dr. King. Next to the widow sitting: / Dr. King's brother, son Dexter (7), daughter Yolanda (12). / KEYSTONE NEW YORK POOL/090468/2