Mrs. Laura Pringle, New Orleans Voter Registration
1971
Artist, American, active c. 1970s
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image: 19.1 × 24.1 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.165
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in gray paint; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF110B; upper left Historic Images barcode sticker; by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink: 3 3/4; center in graphite: 3 col / w/ Voter; center stamped in red ink: PHOTO BY / R. J. ROMAGUERA; center: STATES / COMET; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: --States-Item photo. / MRS. LAURA PRINGLE, 86, registers to vote for the first time in her life, / just five hours before the books closed of the Nov. 6 primaries. Looking on / as she signs her name are ANTONIO E. PAPALE, [circled in black ink] standing, Orleans Parish / Registrar of Voters, and LOUIS P. NIKLAUS, [circled in black ink] chief deputy in the registrar's / office.; lower right stamped in red ink: OCT 7 1971