Title from caption on object: “Three Girls Leave the Previously All-White McDonogh Elementary School…”
November 15, 1960
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Publisher
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: 22 × 17.1 cm (8 11/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 23.2 × 17.8 cm (9 1/8 × 7 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.170
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
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Inscriptions
vertical along right edge printed in image: NEP111506-11/15/60-NEW ORLEANS: Three Negro girls leave the previously /all-white McDonogh Elementary School after spending their second day / in the integrated school. The girls are delivered to the school in the / morning and are called for in the afternoon by the U.S. Marshals that / are shown escorting the girls from the school. One of the girls can be / seen behind the marshal on the right. The third is hidden behind the / marshal. UPI TELEPHOTO JM/JM; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top left in graphite: AF115B; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: A897-Schools.; upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: REFERENCE / NOV 25 '60 / N. E. A.