Title from caption on object: “Emotions Show on Faces in the Crowd as President Kennedy's Body Passes By”
November 24, 1963
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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: 17.8 × 21.6 cm (7 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 17.9 × 22.4 cm (7 1/16 × 8 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.505
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 9 / 9 / 1/3; on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied label: KENNEDY, JOHN F. - ASSASSINATION - GENERAL; top center printed in black ink and highlighted in red ink: [A]SSASSINATION & FUNERAL; top right stamped in purple ink: NOV 25 1963; by unknown hand, center in graphite: OF [illegible] FUNERAL / 4 col x 6" [circled] add red [circled] / [illegible] / w/ story; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: NOV 25 1963; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AP Wirephoto / EMOTIONS SHOW ON FACES IN THE CROWD AS PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY PASSES BY / After lying in state Sunday, the body was taken from the Capitol for services Monday.; by unknown hand, center right in pink ink: 8 55 [underlined]