Title from caption on object: “Newest Justice”
September 1, 1967
American 20th Century, Associated Press
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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: 24 × 18 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.39.187
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
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Inscriptions
along bottom edge printed in image: (WX1) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2--NEWEST JUSTICE--Thurgood Marshall stands in / front of Supreme Court Building yesterday following ceremony in which / he was sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall, first Negro / on the High Court, was given the Constitutional oath by Justice Hugo L. / Black, a one-time member of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Wirephoto) (See AP / Wire Story) (rh70600stf-wjs) 1967; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF207; upper center printed in blue ink perpendicular: DFPD 16191; upper center stamped in black ink: SEP 11 1967; lower center stamped in black ink on applied newspaper: MAY 12 1974