Title from caption on object: “Both a Populist and Demagogue, Huey Long Believed Every Man Should Be a King”

c. 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.1 × 17.8 cm (9 1/8 × 7 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.300

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printing notes and crop marks top center, upper left, and upper right in grease pencil; on verso, by unknown hand, printing notes upper center and bottom right in graphite; upper left stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: SEP 8 - 1964; upper left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [cropped reproduction of image] / HUEY LON[G] [circled in red pencil] / Gunman's vi [obscured]; upper right stamped in black ink: EARLY / SUNDAY / FRIDAY MAKEUP; center printed in black ink on applied paper partially visible: [CAUTIO]N! WATCH RELEASE DATE! / [obscured caption]; by unknown hand, center in red ink on applied newspaper: C; center right stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / SEP 2 1960; lower center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: APR 9 - 1972; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / -AP Photo / BOTH A POPULIST AND A DEMAGOG [sic] / Huey Long [circled in red ink] believed every man should be a king

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